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strictness

strictness noun: the state or quality of being strict.

Noun

strictness (countable and uncountable, plural strictnesses)

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being strict.
    • Discipline calls for a certain strictness.
    • 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.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
  2. (countable) The result or product of being strict.

strictness meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

strictness in Hindi

strictness
सख़्ती saxtī, कड़ाई kaṛāī

strictness in Tamil

strictness, exactness, precision
கண்டிப்பு kaṇṭippu
strictness, severeness, harshness
கொடூரம் koṭūram
strictness, accuracy, correctness
கருக்கு karukku

strictness in Urdu

سختی, زبردستی

strictness in Malayalam

strictness, rigorousness
കർക്കശം kaṟkkaśaṁ
strictness, with certainty
കട്ടായം kaṭṭāyaṁ
strictness
കണിശം kaṇiśaṁ, കടുപ്പം kaṭuppaṁ
More languagesFewer languages
strictness in Kannada
ಕಡಾಕಡಿ, ಖಡಾಖಡಿ

Forms of strictness

pluralstrictnesses

Origin of strictness

From strict + -ness.

Questions about strictness

What does strictness mean?
Strictness means the state or quality of being strict.
What is strictness in Hindi?
Strictness in Hindi is सख़्ती (saxtī), कड़ाई (kaṛāī). See Strictness meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is strictness?
Strictness is a noun.
What is the plural of strictness?
The plural of strictness is strictnesses.

Words near strictness in the dictionary

  1. strictly increasing function
  2. strictly increasing functions
  3. strictly proper
  4. strictly roots
  5. strictly speaking
  6. strictness
  7. strictnesses
  8. stricto senso
  9. stricto sensu
  10. strictosamide
  11. strictosidine

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: strictness (page history and authors); कड़ाई (Hindi) (page history and authors); கண்டிப்பு (Tamil) (page history and authors); strictness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); കടുപ്പം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); strictness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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