noun
- A state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit.
- synonyms: tightness
- Conscientious attention to rules and details.
- synonyms: strictness
Stringency and Roughness
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noun
- A texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven.
- synonyms: raggedness
- The quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses.
- synonyms: harshness
- An unpolished unrefined quality.
- usage: "the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her"
- synonyms: crudeness
- Used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather.
- synonyms: choppiness, rough water
- Rowdy behavior.
- synonyms: rowdiness, rowdyism, disorderliness
- The formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion.
- synonyms: pitting, indentation
- Harsh or severe speech or behavior.
- usage: "men associate the roughness of nonstandard working-class speech with masculinity"; "the roughness of her voice was a signal to keep quiet"
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