Stringency

Definition: Stringency

Stringency

Noun

1. A state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit.

2. Conscientious attention to rules and details.

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

Date "stringency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references)

Health

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Synonyms: Stringency

Severity

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

Crosswords: Stringency

Books

• Piety and Fanaticism: Rabbinic Criticism of Religious Stringency (reference)

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Economic History

India

Indian government procurement practices and procedures are often not transparent or standardized, and discriminate against foreign suppliers, but they are improving under the influence of fiscal stringency. (references)

Political Economy

INDIA

Government Procurement Practices: Government procurement practices are not transparent and discriminate against foreign suppliers, but are improving as a result of fiscal stringency. (references)

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

Expression using "stringency": stringency conditions. Additional references.

Ending with "stringency": low-stringency.

Albanian

rreptësi (austerity, rigor, rigorism, rigour, severity), ngushticë ekonomike. (various references)

Arabic 

‏ندرة المال, ‏قسوة (asperity, austerity, cruelty, hardheartedness, hardness, harshness, inexorability, inhumanity, mercilessness, pitilessness, rigidity, rigor, rigour, ruggedness, severity, sternness, strictness, violence), ‏صرامة (austerity, firmness, fortitude, frankness, hardness, obduracy, rigidity, rigor, rigorism, rigour, severity, sternness, strictness, tightness, toughness), ‏خشونة (asperity, bad manners, coarseness, crudeness, grossness, harshness, roughness, rudeness, scabrousness, severity, toughness, vulgarity). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сила (definition, drive, dynamism, effect, energy, feck, fiber, fibre, flush, force, forcefulness, forte, goodness, hardness, impetus, intension, intensity, inwardness, kick, lustiness, medium, might, mightiness, muscle, muscularity, nerve, pith, potency, power, prowess, punch, sinews, snap, stamina, strength, tenacity, thews, tuck, vehemence, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, vinegar, violence, virility, virtue, virulence, vis, volume, zap, zip), недостиг (deficit, famine, insufficiency, lack, privation, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, ullage, want), липса (absence, default, defect, deficiency, failure, lack, penury, poverty, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, ullage, want). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�� �紧. (various references)

Czech

přísnost (austerity, rigour, severity, sternness, stiffness, strictness, tightness, toughness). (various references)

Danish

stramme økonomiske reserver (reserve stringency), stram pengepolitik (monetary stringency). (various references)

Farsi 

کسادی (Depression, Recession, Slack), تندوتیزی , سختگیری (Rigor), شدت (Acrimony, Duress, Extremity, Gravity, Intensity, Severity, Vehemence, Violence). (various references)

Finnish

kireys (strain, tenseness). (various references)

French

rigueur (sternness, strictness), austérité (sterness). (various references)

German

strenge (absoluteness, astringence, astringences, austerity, hardness, harshness, intenseness, intensity, pungency, rigidity, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, severeness, severity, sterness, sternness, stiffness, strictness, stringently, tightness, topmast), schärfe (abrasiveness, acerbity, acridity, acuteness, asperity, bitterness, causticity, clarity, clearness, ferocity, fierceness, fineness, focus, harshness, heat, hotness, incisiveness, keenness, lash, nicety, pepperiness, poignancy, pungence, pungency, savageness, severeness, severity, sharpness, shrewdness, shrillness, sting, stridence, stridency, tartness, tightness, toughness, trenchancy, vehemence, violence, virulence), härte (aggressiveness, cruelty, firmness, flintiness, grimness, hardness, hardship, harshness, rigorousness, rigour, robustness, roughness, rudeness, ruthlessness, savagery, severeness, severity, sharpness, stability, steeliness, stiffness, stoniness, temper, toughness, violence). (various references)

Greek 

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

Hebrew 

מ�"ת �"�"ין (severity, strictness), חומר�" (difficulty, gravity, harshness, rigor, rigour, severity, sternness, strictness), �"חמר�" (aggravation, strictness, worsening). (various references)

Hungarian

szigorúság (asperity, austerity, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigorism, severity, sternness), pénztelenség. (various references)

Italian

severit� (astringence, astringences, austerity, harshness, severity, sternness, strictness, topmast), rigore (exactness, rigors, rigours, severity, strictness, uprightness, wintriness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

逼迫 (impending). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひっぱく (impending). (various references)

Manx

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, strictness). (various references)

Pig Latin

ingencystray

Portuguese

severidade (asperity, austerity, exactness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigorism, rigour, roughness), vigor (bang, energy, flush, force, hardiness, liveliness, lustiness, nerve, pep, power, snap, stamina, steam, strength, vigour, vim, virility, vitality), rigor (accuracy, asperity, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigour, severity), rigidez (accuracy, buckram, flatiron, hardness, inelasticity, iron, ironwork, rigidity, rigour, starch), falta de dinheiro (not enough money), escassez (dearth, famine, paucity, scarcity, shortage, want), carência (absence, deficiency, failure, famine, lack, miss, need, negation, penurity, penury, poorness, scarcity, shortage, want). (various references)

Romanian

stringenţã (acuteness, urgency), slãbire (abatement, atrophy, attenuation, decay, dilution, emasculation, enervation, fading, failing, failure, labefaction, looseness, maceration, slendering, weakening), severitate (asperity, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigour, rudeness, ruggedness, severity, sternness, strictness), sãrãcie (baldness, barrenness, dearth, destitution, impecuniosity, indigence, meanness, misery, necessity, neediness, poverty, privation, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, sterility, want), rigurozitate (severity, strictness), lipsã (absence, blemish, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, demerit, destitution, drawback, failure, fault, gap, hardship, imperfection, lack, minus, mistake, necessity, neediness, out, paucity, penury, poverty, privation, scantiness, scarceness, shortage, shortcoming, stinginess, vice, want), asprime (abruptness, acerbity, acrimony, asperity, bitterness, callosity, callousness, coarseness, gruffness, hardness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigour, roughness, rudeness, severity, sharpness, sternness). (various references)

Russian 

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

Serbo-Croatian

strogost (austerity, exaction, firmness, rigor, rigorism, rigour, severity, sternness, strictness), sapetost, uverljivost. (various references)

Spanish

tirantez (friction, strain, tenseness, tension, tightness), rigor (badness, hardness, harshness, rigor, rigour, severity, sharpness, strictness). (various references)

Swedish

stränghet (asperity, austerity, hardness, inclemency, rigidity, rigour, severity), knapphet (dearth, exiguity, paucity, scarcity, shortage). (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, strictness, tartness, toughness, vehemence, wiriness), sıkıntı (adversity, agitation, annoyance, anxiety, bore, boredom, bother, botheration, difficulty, dire straits, discomfort, distress, doldrums, draft, embarrassment, famine, fear, fret, gloom, gloominess, grayness, greyness, groan, hardship, heebie-jeebies, inconvenience, incubus, infliction, load, megrims, mopes, nuisance, oppression, pill, pip, pressure, rigor, rigour, rock, scrape, Strait, straits, tedium, the megrims, toil, toils, tribulation, trouble, vexation, weight, willies), sıkılık (fastness, firmness, tightness), sıkışıklık (block, congestion, constriction, denseness, density, jam, press, squeeze), darlık (closeness, denseness, drought, exiguity, grayness, greyness, narrowness, pressure, shortness, straits, tightness), şiddet (acuteness, edge, fierceness, force, forcefulness, harshness, heaviness, impetuosity, impetus, intenseness, intension, intensity, keenness, lustiness, rigor, rigour, rough stuff, severity, sharpness, smartness, sting, tempest, vehemence, violence, virulence). (various references)

Ukrainian

суворість (asperity, astringency, austerity, cruelty, hardness, inclemency, rigidity, rigor, rigour, rudeness, strictness), брак грошей, переконливість (cogency, persuasion, persuasiveness). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tính nghiêm ngặt, tính chính xác (exactitude, exactness, faithfulness, precision, truthfulness), tình hình khó l� m ăn. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "stringency": astringency. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: centrings, encysting.

-2 letters: centring, cresting, ensigncy, scenting, synergic.

-3 letters: censing, cistern, cretins, cringes, cygnets, cystein, cystine, ginners, interns, nesting, renting, resting, retying, ringent, scrying, stinger, stringy, syncing, syringe, tensing, tinners.

-4 letters: cering, citers, cretin, cringe, crying, cygnet, encyst, engirt, ensign, estrin, gentry, gestic, ginner, incest, inerts, ingest, inners, insect, insert, intern, inters, nicest, nicety.

+1 letter: astringency.

+2 letters: syncretising, syncretizing.

+4 letters: nitroglycerins.

+5 letters: disconcertingly, nitroglycerines.