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The art of surviving every storm by refusing to bend, right up until something snaps.
means The quality of being stiff, unyielding, or fixed in form or attitude, whether in a material, a rule, or a mind.
from From Latin rigidus, 'stiff, hard, unbending,' from the verb rigere, 'to be stiff or numb' — the same root that gives us rigor (as in rigor mortis, the stiffness of death). The word entered English in the 1400s–1500s describing literal physical stiffness before it bent, fittingly, toward describing stiff rules and stiff people too.
- engineering flip
- too rigid structures fail; slight flex saves bridges
- shared root
- rigor mortis and rigidity share the same Latin ancestor
- psych term
- cognitive rigidity describes inability to adapt thinking, not willpower
- physics irony
- diamond is rigid yet shatters; rubber bends and survives