Definition for Stringency:

• The act of binding strongly; urgency; severe pressure.

Synonyms for Stringency:

• n.

  •
  • easy,
  • hardness,
  • rigidity.
  •austerity (noun)
  • in clemency,
  • in-flexibilities,
  • astringences,
  • in-flexibility,
  • in clemencies,
  • formalnesses,
  • in-clemency,
  • in flexibilities,
  • exactingnesses,
  • in-clemencies,
  • in flexibility.
  •hardness (noun)
  • unkindness,
  • hardheartedness.
  •rigor (noun)
  • traditionalisms,
  • in-tolerance,
  • in tolerance,
  • in-tolerances,
  • in tolerances.
  •scarcity (noun)
  • in frequency,
  • in frequencies,
  • un-commonness,
  • in-sufficiency,
  • in adequacies,
  • exiguities,
  • in sufficiencies,
  • sparsities,
  • uncommonnesses,
  • un commonnesses,
  • in sufficiency,
  • in-frequency,
  • un-commonnesses,
  • in adequacy,
  • in-frequencies,
  • in-sufficiencies,
  • in-adequacies,
  • rarenesses,
  • un commonness,
  • in-adequacy.
  •severity (noun)
  • correctness,
  • harshness,
  • oppressiveness,
  • bluntness,
  • keenness,
  • starkness,
  • acerbity,
  • brusqueness,
  • leanness,
  • sternness,
  • crispness,
  • coolness,
  • gruffness,
  • abruptness,
  • authoritarianism,
  • causticity,
  • frostiness,
  • astringency,
  • sharpness,
  • grimness,
  • cruelty,
  • briskness,
  • acuteness,
  • discipline,
  • strictness,
  • matter-of-factness,
  • rigorousness,
  • intensity,
  • dryness,
  • chilliness,
  • bleakness,
  • austerity.
  •state (noun)
  • tightness,
  • stringency.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • astringence,
  • conventionalism,
  • exactness,
  • exiguity,
  • famine,
  • formality,
  • formalness,
  • inclemency,
  • infrequency,
  • meticulousness,
  • obduracy,
  • preciseness,
  • punctiliousness,
  • rareness,
  • rigor,
  • scantiness,
  • scarcity,
  • severity,
  • sparsity,
  • toughness,
  • traditionalism,
  • uncommonness,
  • visitation,
  • Inclemencies,
  • exactingness,
  • conventionalisms.

Paraphrases for Stringency:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    strictness, rigor.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    severe, tough, harsh, meticulous.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    scarcity, hardship, restriction, precision, strength, contraction, shortage, stress, stresses, vigour.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    strict, rigorous.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    austerity, severity, thoroughness, tightening, discipline, inflexibility, harshness, rigidity, firmness, toughness, retrenchment, restraint, rigorous, accuracy, correctness, rectitude, exactness, constraint, tightness, crunch, meticulousness, squeeze.

Antonyms for Stringency:

• n.

  • severity
    gentility, kindness, mildness.
  • Other antonyms:
    lenience, softness, flexibility, indulgence, tolerance, forbearance, laxness, compliance, willingness, tenderness, responsiveness, pliability, pliancy, patience, gentleness.

Stringency Sentence Examples:

• In consequence of the sudden approach of fall and the renewed stringency of the blockade, there are no strawberries to be had, and the First Families are subsisting entirely upon persimmons.

• Happily some laws are so stringent that their very stringency prevents their thorough execution.

Hyponym for Stringency:

• n.

  • state
    deficiency, lack, want.