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Strictness vs Literalness - What's the difference?

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Strictness is a related term of literalness.


As nouns the difference between strictness and literalness

is that strictness is (uncountable) the state or quality of being strict while literalness is the property of being literal.

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.

    • literalness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The property of being literal.