gracelessness vs stiffness what difference
what is difference between gracelessness and stiffness
English
Etymology
graceless + -ness
Noun
gracelessness (countable and uncountable, plural gracelessnesses)
- The state of being graceless.
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, Part Three, Chapter 3, [1]
- He was aware of his ugliness, his gracelessness, a bundle of bones in filthy underclothes sitting weeping in the harsh white light: but he could not stop himself.
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, Part Three, Chapter 3, [1]
English
Etymology
From Middle English stiffenes, styffenesse, styfnesse; equivalent to stiff + -ness. Perhaps merging with Middle English stithnesse, stithnysse, from Old English stīþness (“stiffness”).
Noun
stiffness (countable and uncountable, plural stiffnesses)
- Rigidity or a measure of rigidity.
- Inflexibility or a measure of inflexibility.
- Inelegance; a lack of relaxedness.
- 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
- 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Muscular tension due to unaccustomed or excessive exercise or work; soreness.
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