Stiffness vs Strictness - What's the difference?
stiffness | strictness | Related terms |
Rigidity or a measure of rigidity.
Inflexibility or a measure of inflexibility.
Inelegance, lacking relaxedness.
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(uncountable) The state or quality of being strict.
:Discipline calls for a certain strictness .
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, 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.
Stiffness is a related term of strictness.
As nouns the difference between stiffness and strictness
is that stiffness is rigidity or a measure of rigidity while strictness is (uncountable) the state or quality of being strict.stiffness
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- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness , the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.