Also called: Rigid fingers · Inflexible fingers

Where on the hand: Tested by pressing the extended fingers gently backward; stiff fingers barely yield.

What it looks like: The fingers hold their line under pressure. A separate, more extreme case is fingers that curve inward and cannot be straightened at all.

Steadfast convictions, clarity, dedication, capacity for anger and obstinacy. Where the fingers curve inward and cannot straighten, Cheiro reads someone slow to grasp an idea but with a retentive memory.

Western reading: Cheiro's reading of the permanently inward-curving hand is the classic case.

Read with care: Context correction: the Cheiro line quoted here describes fingers CURVED INWARD toward the palm, not stiff fingers.

slow to grasp an ideaCheiro, Palmistry for All (1916)