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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun stringency has 2 senses

• stringency(n = noun.state) tightness - a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit; Array
is a kind of deficiency, lack, want

• stringency(n = noun.attribute) strictness - conscientious attention to rules and details; Array
is a kind of conscientiousness, painstakingness
Derived form adjective stringent₁

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THESAURUS

stringency

Spartanism, acerbity, acidity, acridity, acrimony, astringency, austerity, authoritarianism, bite, bitterness, causticity, chinchiness, chintziness, demandingness, discipline, edge, exactingness, exiguity, fewness, fierceness, grimness, grip, hardness, harshness, inclemency, infrequency, keenness, meagerness, meticulousness, miserliness, mordacity, mordancy, niggardliness, paucity, poignancy, point, rarity, regimentation, restrictedness, rigid discipline, rigor, roughness, ruggedness, scantiness, scarcity, scrimpiness, severity, sharpness, skimpiness, smallness, sparseness, sparsity, sternness, sting, stinginess, strictness, stridency, tartness, teeth, thinness, tightness, toughness, trenchancy, ungentleness, vehemence, violence, virulence

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Severity

N severity, strictness, harshness, rigor, stringency, austerity, inclemency, arrogance, precisianism, arbitrary power, absolutism, despotism, dictatorship, autocracy, tyranny, domineering, oppression, assumption, usurpation, inquisition, reign of terror, martial law, iron heel, iron rule, iron hand, iron sway, tight grasp, brute force, brute strength, coercion, strong hand, tight hand, hard lines, hard measure, tender mercies, sharp practice, pipe-clay, officialism, tyrant, disciplinarian, precisian, martinet, stickler, bashaw, despot, hard master, Draco, oppressor, inquisitor, extortioner, harpy, vulture, accipitres, birds of prey, raptorials, raptors, severe, strict, hard, harsh, dour, rigid, stiff, stern, rigorous, uncompromising, exacting, exigent, exigeant, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, austere, hard-headed, hard-nosed, hard-shell, relentless, Spartan, Draconian, stringent, strait-laced, searching, unsparing, iron-handed, peremptory, absolute, positive, arbitrary, imperative, coercive, tyrannical, extortionate, grinding, withering, oppressive, inquisitorial, inclement, cruel, haughty, arrogant, precisian, severely, with a high hand, with a strong hand, with a tight hand, with a heavy hand, at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet, Delirant reges plectuntur Achivi, manu forti, ogni debole ha sempre il suo tiranno.

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