Stringency and Rigidity

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 physical property of being stiff and resisting bending.
  • synonyms: rigidness
• The quality of being rigid and rigorously severe.
  • synonyms: inflexibility, rigidness

• (n.) The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness.
• (n.) Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.
• (n.) Severity; rigor.