Strictness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Strictness is a noun meaning (uncountable) The state or quality of being strict.
Meaning
(uncountable) The state or quality of being strict.
More Meanings
- (countable) The result or product of being strict.
Example Sentences
Discipline calls for a certain strictness.
I lost all restraint, and yielding to the force of the emotion, gave down, as mere woman, those effusions of pleasure, which, in the strictness of still faithful love, I could have wished to have held up.
Word Forms
- strictnesses
Synonyms for strictness
Depending on context, synonyms include stringency, sternness.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include stringency, sternness, stringent, austerity, rigour, rigor.
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