The Clue
Stiffness (5 letter answer)
The Answer
RIGOR
Tags
Notes
The answer RIGOR is common and appears about once every 225 puzzles.
Related Clues
Austerity
Difficulty
Exactitude
Hardship
Harshness
Severity
Stringency
Demanding standard
Lack of laxness
Martinet's quality
Definition
RIGOR as a noun:
1. (asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness) = something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
2. (cogency, validity, rigor, rigour) = the quality of being logically valid
3. (severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness) = excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"