inextensibility

inextensibility
The condition of being inextensible

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  • inextensibility — “+ noun Etymology: in (I) + extensibility : incapability of being drawn out or stretched inextensibility of a rope …   Useful english dictionary

  • inextensibility — in·extensibility …   English syllables

  • inextensible — inextensibility, n. /in ik sten seuh beuhl/, adj. not extensible; incapable of being extended or stretched. [1830 40; IN 3 + EXTENSIBLE] * * * …   Universalium

  • inflexibility — Synonyms and related words: act of God, adamantness, certainty, concentration, constancy, dourness, fate, fatefulness, firmness, firmness of mind, fixedness, flintiness, force majeure, fundamentalism, grimness, hard bittenness, hard nosedness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • intractability — Synonyms and related words: civil disobedience, contumaciousness, contumacy, defiance, disobedience, fractiousness, frowardness, immovability, immutability, incorrigibility, indiscipline, indocility, indomitability, inductility, inelasticity,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • stubbornness — Synonyms and related words: adhesiveness, antipathy, application, assiduity, assiduousness, averseness, aversion, backwardness, balkiness, bigotry, bulldog tenacity, bullheadedness, cantankerousness, cohesiveness, concentration, consistency,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • inelasticity — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of flexibility Nouns inelasticity; flabbiness, limpness, flaccidity, laxity, softness; inductibility, inflexibility, stiffness, hardness; inextensibility. Verbs stiffen, rigidify, tense. Adjectives… …   English dictionary for students

  • hardness — n 1. firmness, solidity, compactness, density; impenetrability, imperviousness, renitency, re sistency; stiffness, rigidity, rigidness, inextensibility, inelasticity, inflexibility, unmalleability, intractability, unbendingness; immutability,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • inextensible — /ɪnəkˈstɛnsəbəl/ (say inuhk stensuhbuhl), /ɪnɛk / (say inek ) adjective not extensible. –inextensibility /ɪnəkstɛnsəˈbɪləti/ (say inuhkstensuh biluhtee), noun …  

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