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Tightness vs Stricture - What's the difference?

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Tightness is a related term of stricture.


As nouns the difference between tightness and stricture

is that tightness is the quality or degree of being tight while stricture is (usually in plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action.

tightness

English

Noun

  • The quality or degree of being tight
  • stricture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually in plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action
  • For them, parity is less an ultimate goal than a transitory and permissive springboard for testing Western resolve and pursuing whatever additional accretions of strategic power the strictures of SALT and American tolerance will allow.
  • a sternly critical remark or review
  • (medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body
  • (obsolete) strictness
  • A man of stricture and firm abstinence. — Shakespeare.
  • (obsolete) a stroke; a glance; a touch
  • (linguistics) the degree of contact, in consonants