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Strictness vs Tightness - What's the difference?

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Strictness is a related term of tightness.


As nouns the difference between strictness and tightness

is that strictness is (uncountable) the state or quality of being strict while tightness is the quality or degree of being tight.

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.

    • tightness

    English

    Noun

  • The quality or degree of being tight