Meanings
plural strictnesses
- uncountableThe state or quality of being strict.
Discipline calls for a certain strictness.
1 more example
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.
Fanny Hill
1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC - countableThe result or product of being strict.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounconscientious attention to rules and details
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Polish surowość, rygor
- surowośćTranslations
- rygorTranslations
Spanish estrictez
- estrictezTranslations
Cite this entry
strictness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/strictness
“strictness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/strictness. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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