rigidity
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Synonyms & Antonyms for rigidity
Synonyms
exactingness, hardness, harshness, inflexibility, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, severity, sternness, strictness, stringency
Antonyms
flexibility, gentleness, laxness, mildness
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That rigidity limits what AI has been able to do for us. — Tom Simonite, WIRED, "Ask the Know-It-Alls: How Do Machines Learn?," 26 Aug. 2019 In Hong Kong, that rigidity has taken a toll: in the run-up to the crisis, Xi’s proxies rejected even minimal demands, betting, wrongly, that the protesters would relent. — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, "China’s Hong Kong Dilemma," 25 Aug. 2019 If such bastions of rigidity can consider becoming more flexible, perhaps there’s hope for the rest of business. — Fortune, "A Radical Plan to Recruit More Women to Finance: The Broadsheet," 20 Aug. 2019 For me, rigidity seems to create conditions that amplify my own anxieties. — Gray Chapman, SELF, "A Nightmare About Nachos Made Me Realize That Dieting Was Causing Me Food Anxiety," 27 Mar. 2019 Lew tells Curbed that the recent interest in postmodern design of the late ’70s and ’80s—which had an anything-goes attitude and rebuked the austerity and rigidity of modernism before it—influenced today’s explorations of oversized proportions. — Diana Budds, Curbed, "Cute furniture is a reprieve from our age of anxiety," 7 Aug. 2019 There was a certain rigidity to those family vacations: Arena and his wife, Phyllis, paid the rent, Bradley and Sarachan bought the groceries and did the cooking. — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, "Bob Bradley and Bruce Arena are MLS foes, but always friends," 3 Aug. 2019 His reputation leans more toward pragmatic problem-solving than ideological rigidity. — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, "Cory Booker’s college football struggles echo in his presidential campaign," 30 July 2019 The car's front and rear suspension—a maze of A-arms and power rams—are bolted to subframes rigidly mated to the central tube, rigidity being the key to an active system. — Tony Swan, Popular Mechanics, "A Closer Look at Chevy's Mid-Engine Corvette...From 1988?," 19 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'rigidity.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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