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Inflexibility   /ɪnflˌɛksɪbˈɪlɪti/   Listen
Inflexibility

noun
1.
A lack of physical flexibility.  Synonym: inflexibleness.
2.
The quality of being rigid and rigorously severe.  Synonyms: rigidity, rigidness.





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"Inflexibility" Quotes from Famous Books



... his friend had that inflexibility of principle in criticism and literary utterance which they adhered to as though it were a matter of high morals. This feeling contrasts with the easy adaptability of our day, when the critic so often has to shape his views according to interested aims. He indeed will hold in his views, but may ...
— John Forster • Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald
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... Owen's inflexibility frightened her. She had half expected that when he knew her real and vital dislike for Miss Loder he would promise to send her away; but he had done nothing of the kind: and Toni felt again, as she had already felt once or twice of late, that Owen had no intention of giving ...
— The Making of a Soul • Kathlyn Rhodes
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... already a streak of gray, was set on his shoulders at just the right poise for command. The high-bridged nose, inherited from the Umfravilles, was of the kind commonly considered to show "race." The eyes had the sharpness, and the thin-lipped mouth the inflexibility, that go with a capacity for quick decisions. While he was not so imposing in mufti as in his uniform, the trim traveling-suit of russet brown went well with the bronze tint of the complexion. It was so healthy a bronze, as a usual thing, that ...
— The Street Called Straight • Basil King
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... to be saved. He has all his father's inflexibility, but an intellect as clear as that of the most practical man. He has a will of iron, dauntless resolution, and an implacable temper. At the same time he has the open generosity and the tender heart ...
— Cord and Creese • James de Mille
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... inflexibility and censoriousness. His account of his father makes one believe in the fatality of heredity. Born of old nonconformist stock, the elder Spencer was a man of absolute punctuality. Always he would step ...
— Memories and Studies • William James
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