Strictness

Definition: Strictness

Strictness

Noun

1. Conscientious attention to rules and details.

2. Uncompromising resolution.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "strictness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)

Synonyms: Strictness

Orthodoxy

Noun: orthodoxy; strictness, soundness, religious truth, true faith; truth; soundness of doctrine.

Severity

Noun: severity; strictness, harshness; Adjective: rigor, stringency, austerity; inclemency; (pitilessness) a; arrogance; precisianism.

Crosswords: Strictness

Books

• In Single Strictness (Short Story Index Reprint Series) (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

There are fundamentally no barriers to trade and investment in the tourism industry, but newcomers to the market should be aware of the increasing strictness of the environmental provisions and, most importantly, of the ubiquitous policy of black empowerment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Arabic 

‏قسوة (asperity, austerity, cruelty, hardheartedness, hardness, harshness, inexorability, inhumanity, mercilessness, pitilessness, rigidity, rigor, rigour, ruggedness, severity, sternness, stringency, violence), ‏ضبط (accuracy, adjust, check, control, dam, detect, exactitude, frame, govern, inspect, measure, monitor, police, preciseness, precision, punctuality, regularize, regulate, regulation, rightness, school, set, setting, square, test, tune, tuning), ‏صرامة (austerity, firmness, fortitude, frankness, hardness, obduracy, rigidity, rigor, rigorism, rigour, severity, sternness, stringency, tightness, toughness), ‏دقة (accuracy, closeness, delicacy, exactitude, exactness, fidelity, fineness, finesse, fussiness, nicety, preciseness, precision, promptitude, punctuality, refinement, reliability, rigor, rigour, subtlety, sureness, tenuity, thoroughness, veracity). (various references)

Bulgarian 

строго гост, точност (accuracy, delicacy, distinctness, exactitude, exactness, expedition, fidelity, literality, minuteness, nearness, neatness, nicety, particularity, precision, promptitude, punctuality, rigor, rigour), взискателност (rigor, rigorism, rigour, severity). (various references)

Chinese 

严� �. (various references)

Czech

přesnost (accuracy, closeness, exactitude, exactness, faithfulness, fidelity, minuteness, niceties, nicety, precision, punctuality, rightness), přísnost (austerity, rigour, severity, sternness, stiffness, stringency, tightness, toughness). (various references)

Finnish

tiukkuus (tightness), tarkkuus (accuracy, exactitude, exactness, keenness, precision), ankaruus (intensity, rigour, severity). (various references)

French

sévérité (sternness), rigueur (sternness, stringency), précision, exactitude. (various references)

German

Strenge (absoluteness, astringence, astringences, austerity, hardness, harshness, intenseness, intensity, pungency, rigidity, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, severeness, severity, sterness, sternness, stiffness, stringency, stringently, tightness, topmast), Genauigkeit (accuracy, correctness, elaborateness, essential, exactitude, exactness, faithfulness, fastidiousness, fidelity, measuredness, meticulousness, minuteness, niceness, nicety, particularity, preciseness, precision, punctiliousness, rightness, rigidity, scrupulousness, shrewdness, smoothness, specificity, veracity). (various references)

Greek 

αυστηρότητα (austerity, rigor, rigour, severeness, severity, sternness, stringency). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�"ת �"�"ין (severity, stringency), קפי�"�" (severity), קפ�"�" (extermination, severity), קפ�"� ות (austerity, meticulousness, observation, pedantry, preciseness, precision, rigor, rigour, severity), חומר�" (difficulty, gravity, harshness, rigor, rigour, severity, sternness, stringency), �"קפ�"�" (irritation, pedantry, precision, punctuality, rigor, rigour), �"חמר�" (aggravation, stringency, worsening). (various references)

Hungarian

pontosság (accuracy, assiduousness, closeness, daintiness, exactitude, exactness, fidelity, nicety, preciseness, precision, punctuality, sharpness). (various references)

Italian

severit� (astringence, astringences, austerity, harshness, severity, sternness, stringency, topmast), rigore (exactness, rigors, rigours, severity, stringency, uprightness, wintriness), precisione (accuracy, exactitude, nicety, preciseness, precision, thoroughness), esattezza (accuracy, exactitude, exactness, faithfulness, preciseness, truth). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

厳正 (exactness, impartiality, rigidness), 厳� � (austerity, rigid, rigor, severe), 厳しさ (intensity, severity). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きびしさ (intensity, severity), �'�"せい (current state, exactness, impartiality, life, present or actual strength, presentworld, primeval, primitive, rigidness, sound of the strings, spontaneous generation, the present age), �'�"かく (austerity, hallucination, illusion, rigid, rigor, severe). (various references)

Manx

jeerid (alignment, candour, directness, faithfulness, frankness, honesty, ingeniousness, sincerity, straightness), geyrid (abruptness, acidity, acridity, acuteness, austerity, definition, discernment, hardness, hardness of sound, incisiveness, intensity, keenness, mordacity, poignancy, pointedness, pungency, quickness of sight, rigidity, rigour of the law, sharpness, sourness, stiffness, stringency), cruinnid (circularity, closeness, roundness). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Romanian

stricteţe (exactness, rigidity, severity), strânsoare (grasp, grip, pinch, pinching, restraint), severitate (asperity, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigour, rudeness, ruggedness, severity, sternness, stringency), rigurozitate (severity, stringency), rigoare (hardness, harshness, rigor, rigour), justeţe (accuracy, appositeness, equitableness, exactness, fair-mindedness, fairness, impartiality, justice, justness, righteousness, rightness, rigor, rigour), exactitate (accuracy, correctness, exactitude, exactness, neatness, nicety, precision, punctuality, reliability, rightness, rigor, rigour). (various references)

Russian 

строгость (austerity, rigor, severity, stringency). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

strogost (austerity, exaction, firmness, rigor, rigorism, rigour, severity, sternness, stringency). (various references)

Spanish

severidad (hardness, harshness, rigor, rigour, severity, sharpness), rigor (badness, hardness, harshness, rigor, rigour, severity, sharpness, stringency), lo terminante, exactitud (accuracy, adequacy, clarity, correctness, exactitude, exactness, preciseness, precision, punctuality, reliability, rightness), estrechez (closeness, distress, misery, narrowness, tightness, trouble, want). (various references)

Turkish

sertlik (asperity, austerity, bitterness, curtness, fierceness, firmness, hardness, harshness, headiness, inclemency, intemperance, kick, pungency, rigidity, rigor, rigour, severity, sharpness, solidity, starch, sternness, stiffness, stoniness, strength, stringency, tartness, toughness, vehemence, wiriness), sıkı disiplin (discipline, iron discipline), katılık (consistence, consistency, hardness, rigidity, rigor, rigour, solidity, sternness, stiffness). (various references)

Ukrainian

суворість (asperity, astringency, austerity, cruelty, hardness, inclemency, rigidity, rigor, rigour, rudeness, stringency), вимогливість (nicety). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tính nghiêm khắc (astringency, rigorism, rigour, severity), tính nghiêm chỉnh, tính chính xác tính nghiêm ngặt. (various references)

Welsh

caethder (asthma, restraint). (various references)

duritia, duritiae, duritiam, severitas, severitatem. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "strictness": strictnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Strictness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stricten. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: centrists.

-2 letters: centrist, cisterns, citterns, stinters, trisects.

-3 letters: cistern, cittern, cretins, estrins, incests, insects, inserts, resists, retints, sinters, sisters, sitters, stinter, tinters, trisect.

-4 letters: citers, crests, cretin, crises, estrin, incest, inerts, insect, insert, insets, inters, nicest, niters, nitres, resins, resist, retint, rinses, scents, scries, serins, sinter, sirens, sister, sitten, sitter, steins, steric, sterns, stints.

+1 letter: syncretists.

+2 letters: instructress, strictnesses, testcrossing.

+4 letters: contritenesses, instructresses, resuscitations, transcriptases.

+5 letters: crotchetinesses, destructionists, destructiveness, instructiveness, intricatenesses, neuroscientists, obstructiveness, pectinesterases, restrictionisms, restrictionists, restrictiveness, sacramentalists, sacrosanctities, straitlacedness.