Definition of "firmness"

The state of being firm

1. security; steadfastness; good grip  examples

2. strictness; mental strength  quotations  examples

   Quotations

   • But many a man who would have stood within a home dismantled, strong in his passion and design of vengeance, has had the firmness of his nature conquered by the razing of an air–built castle.

     1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 23, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844

   • France, for the first time since the death of Charlemagne, was governed by a prince of great firmness and ability.

     1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans

3. physical durability; rigidness (of material)  examples