stiffness

Noun

• excessive sternness
  • severity of character
    
  • the harshness of his punishment was inhuman
    
  • the rigors of boot camp
    

• the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)

• firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
  • a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity
    

• the property of moving with pain or difficulty
  • he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck
    

• the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  awkwardness , clumsiness , gracelessness