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Rigor vs Strictness - What's the difference?

rigor | strictness |

As nouns the difference between rigor and strictness

is that rigor is while strictness is (uncountable) the state or quality of being strict.

rigor

English

Noun

  • (slang) an abbreviated form of rigor mortis.
  • * 2005 , Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade , page 4, paragraph 3
  • Heat always upped the rate at which rigor gripped a corpse.
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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.