as in severity
the quality or state of being demanding or unyielding (as in discipline or criticism)
sometimes the rigidity of the headmaster's discipline was deemed excessive by even much of the faculty
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Recent Examples of rigidity
Such failures arose from the first Trump administration’s toxic brew of ideological rigidity, bureaucratic incompetence, and interagency feuding.
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Matias Spektor, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2025
This aluminum gives the keyboard a nice rigidity that keeps it from flexing under stress.
—PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2025
Perhaps there’s less rigidity against hosting some select matches on Paramount+ than when this 10-year pact first began.
—Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
However, Morgan made scores of small adjustments to the chassis to increase handling, ride quality and structural rigidity.
—New Atlas, 23 Mar. 2025
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Matias Spektor, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2025
This aluminum gives the keyboard a nice rigidity that keeps it from flexing under stress.
—PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2025
Perhaps there’s less rigidity against hosting some select matches on Paramount+ than when this 10-year pact first began.
—Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
However, Morgan made scores of small adjustments to the chassis to increase handling, ride quality and structural rigidity.
—New Atlas, 23 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for rigidity
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“Rigidity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rigidity. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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