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Strictness vs Stinginess - What's the difference?

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Strictness is a related term of stinginess.


As nouns the difference between strictness and stinginess

is that strictness is (uncountable) the state or quality of being strict while stinginess is a lack of generosity.

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.

    • stinginess

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A lack of generosity.

    • Synonyms

    * parsimony * niggardliness * see also greed, avarice

    Related terms

    * stingy