Stringency and Intensity

noun

• A state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit.
  • synonyms: tightness
• Conscientious attention to rules and details.
  • synonyms: strictness

noun

• The amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation. )
  • usage: "he adjusted the intensity of the sound"; "they measured the station's signal strength"
  • synonyms: strength, intensity level
• High level or degree; the property of being intense.
  • synonyms: intensiveness
• The magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction. )
  • usage: "the kids played their music at full volume"
  • synonyms: volume, loudness
• Chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue.
  • synonyms: saturation, chroma, vividness

• (n.) The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc.
• (n.) The amount or degree of energy with which a force operates or a cause acts; effectiveness, as estimated by results produced.
• (n.) The magnitude of a distributed force, as pressure, stress, weight, etc., per unit of surface or of volume, as the case may be; as, the measure of the intensity of a total stress of forty pounds which is distributed uniformly over a surface of four square inches area is ten pounds per square inch.
• (n.) The degree or depth of shade in a picture.