sternness vs stiffness
stiffness vs sternnesssternness and stiffness both are nouns.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| sternness | Yes | No | No | No |
| stiffness | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
stiffness is a hyponym of
sternness; that is, stiffness is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
sternness:
- sternness: uncompromising resolution
- stiffness: excessive sternness
Other hyponyms of sternness include
Puritanism, hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity.
| sternness (noun) | stiffness (noun) |
|---|---|
| uncompromising resolution | the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend |
| the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding | the property of moving with pain or difficulty |
| the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) | |
| excessive sternness | |
| firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action |
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