Astriction vs Constriction - What's the difference?
astriction | constriction |
The act of binding; restriction; obligation.
(medicine) A contraction of parts by applications; the action of an astringent substance.
(obsolete) constipation
(obsolete) astringency
(legal, Scotland, historical) An obligation to have the grain growing on certain lands ground at a certain mill, the owner paying a toll. (The lands were said to be astricted to the mill.)
The act of constricting, the state of being constricted, or something that constricts
A narrow part of something; a stricture
A compression
As nouns the difference between astriction and constriction
is that astriction is the act of binding; restriction; obligation while constriction is the act of constricting, the state of being constricted, or something that constricts.astriction
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