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Rigidity vs Strictness - What's the difference?

rigidity | strictness |

As nouns the difference between rigidity and strictness

is that rigidity is the quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form while strictness is (uncountable) the state or quality of being strict.

rigidity

English

Noun

  • The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form.
  • Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.
  • In Economics: synonym for stickiness (of prices/wages etc.). Describing the tendency of prices and money wages to adjust to changes in the economy with a certain delay.
  • Synonyms

    * rigidness

    Antonyms

    * flexibility * ductility * malleability * softness

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    strictness

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or quality of being strict.
  • :Discipline calls for a certain strictness .
  • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , 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.}}
  • (countable) The result or product of being strict.