Difference between Awkwardness and Stiffness

AWKWARDNESS vs STIFFNESS: NOUN

Firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
Inflexibility or a measure of inflexibility
Rigidity or a measure of rigidity
The quality or state of being stiff
Specifically, the power or ability of a vessel to oppose great resistance to inclination from the upright from the pressure of wind on the sails or other external forces.
The state or character of being stiff, in any sense.
Excessive sternness
The inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
The physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
The property of moving with pain or difficulty

Embarrassment, Annoyance, Discomfort, Shyness, Maladroitness, Cumbersomeness, Nuisance value, Stiffness, Ineptness, Slowness, Ineptitude, Inconvenience, Unwieldiness, Gracelessness, Clumsiness

Rigor, Stickiness, Steepness, Rigid, Strength, Roughness, Rigidity, Tightness, Gracelessness, Inclemency, Severity, Clumsiness, Awkwardness, Harshness, Hardness

Silliness, Strangeness, Ennui, Hilarity, Unpleasantness, Angst, Bashfulness, Mind, Dazzle, Embarrassment, Discomfort, Maladroitness, Stiffness, Ineptitude, Clumsiness

Resistance, Inflexible, Formality, Rigor, Stickiness, Steepness, Rigid, Strength, Roughness, Rigidity, Tightness, Inclemency, Clumsiness, Awkwardness, Hardness

This leads to reduced awkwardness and improved social skills.
Identify social awkwardness to define a typical American, there!
The absence of awkwardness in meeting a new people!
That awkwardness will only fuel her anger at you.
West Germany and Israel, there existed a gargantuan awkwardness.
Because it creates awkwardness, silence can be golden.
ANT: Unfitness, unsuitableness, insusceptibility, slowness, stupidity, unreadiness, awkwardness.
How to eliminate the awkwardness of an introduction!
Pre setting the clamps saves awkwardness and time.
But there is good reason for my awkwardness.

Instability can also occur when there is very little stiffness to resist deflection, as opposed to zero stiffness.
The remaining text deals with the analysis of framed structures using flexibility, stiffness and direct stiffness methods.
The effective stiffness of the concrete in these cases is less than its elastic stiffness.
Stiffness is the inverse of flexibility; greater stiffness results in less flexibility.
Element stiffness matrix formulation and assembly to global stiffness matrix for rigid jointed frame.
For bending tests, it is important to distinguish between intrinsic stiffness and extrinsic stiffness of the bone.
The contribution of floor systems to stiffness should be taken into account in evaluating girder stiffness.
Doctors also need to know where people feel stiffness and how long stiffness lasts.
ECM stiffness was the cause for elevated muscle stiffness measures.
To establish the stiffness value of each frameset, we measure two different variables: frame stiffness and pedaling stiffness.