stringency

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
stringency
    n 1: a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of
         credit [syn: {stringency}, {tightness}]
    2: conscientious attention to rules and details [syn:
       {strictness}, {stringency}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Stringency \Strin"gen*cy\ (str[i^]n"jen*s[y^]), n.
   The quality or state of being stringent.
   [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "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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