strictness

English

Etymology

From strict +‎ -ness.

Noun

strictness (countable and uncountable, plural strictnesses)

1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being strict.

   Discipline calls for a certain strictness.

   • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:

     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.

2. (countable) The result or product of being strict.