stringency

CIDE DICTIONARY

stringency, n. 

 The quality or state of being stringent.  [1913 Webster]

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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stringency

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.