STRICTNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does strictness mean? 

• STRICTNESS (noun)
  The noun STRICTNESS has 2 senses:

1. conscientious attention to rules and details

2. uncompromising resolution

  Familiarity information: STRICTNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRICTNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conscientious attention to rules and details

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

strictness; stringency

Hypernyms ("strictness" is a kind of...):

conscientiousness; painstakingness (the trait of being painstaking and careful)

Derivation:

strict (rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard)

strict ((of rules) stringently enforced)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Uncompromising resolution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

sternness; strictness

Hypernyms ("strictness" is a kind of...):

restrictiveness; unpermissiveness (a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "strictness"):

Puritanism (strictness and austerity in conduct and religion)

hardness; harshness; inclemency; rigor; rigorousness; rigour; rigourousness; severeness; severity; stiffness (excessive sternness)

Derivation:

strict (incapable of compromise or flexibility)

 Context examples 

Mr. Brocklehurst, who, from his wealth and family connections, could not be overlooked, still retained the post of treasurer; but he was aided in the discharge of his duties by gentlemen of rather more enlarged and sympathising minds: his office of inspector, too, was shared by those who knew how to combine reason with strictness, comfort with economy, compassion with uprightness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Yet thus much I may be allowed to say in my own vindication, that I artfully eluded many of his questions, and gave to every point a more favourable turn, by many degrees, than the strictness of truth would allow.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)