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Strictness vs Stringency - What's the difference?

strictness | stringency |

As nouns the difference between strictness and stringency

is that strictness is (uncountable) the state or quality of being strict while stringency is a rigorous imposition of standards.

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.

    • stringency

    English

    Noun

    (stringencies)
  • A rigorous imposition of standards
  • A tightness or constriction
  • A scarcity of money or credit