Strictness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Strictness \Strict"ness\, n.
     Quality or state of being strict.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  strictness
       n 1: conscientious attention to rules and details [syn: {stringency}]
       2: uncompromising resolution [syn: {sternness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  133 Moby Thesaurus words for "strictness":
     Sabbatarianism, absoluteness, accommodation, accord, accordance,
     accuracy, acquiescence, adaptation, adaption, adjustment,
     agreement, attention to detail, attention to fact, bibliolatry,
     bigotry, care for truth, censoriousness, choosiness,
     circumstantiality, closeness, compliance, confinement, conformance,
     conformation other-direction, conformity, congruity,
     conscientiousness, consistency, conventionality, correctness,
     correspondence, criticality, criticalness, crowdedness, delicacy,
     detail, discriminatingness, discrimination, discriminativeness,
     dogmatism, evangelicalism, exactingness, exactitude, exactness,
     exquisiteness, faithfulness, fastidiousness, faultlessness,
     fidelity, fineness, finicality, finicalness, finickiness,
     finickingness, flawlessness, flexibility, fundamentalism,
     fussiness, hair, hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, harmony, hideboundness,
     hyperorthodoxy, incapaciousness, incommodiousness, keeping,
     limitation, line, literalism, literality, literalness,
     malleability, mathematical precision, meticulousness, minuteness,
     narrow gauge, narrowness, nearness, niceness, nicety, obedience,
     observance, orthodoxy, particularity, particularness, perfection,
     perfectionism, pliancy, preciseness, precisianism, precision,
     priggishness, prudishness, punctilio, punctiliousness, punctuality,
     purism, puritanicalness, puritanism, reconcilement, reconciliation,
     refinement, restrictedness, restriction, right, rightness,
     rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, sabbatism, scripturalism,
     scrupulosity, scrupulousness, selectiveness, selectivity,
     sensitivity, severity, slenderness, staunchness, stiff-neckedness,
     straitlacedness, straitness, strict interpretation, subtlety,
     taste, textualism, the letter, tight squeeze, tightness,
     traditionalism, uniformity