strictness

Etymology

From strict +‎ -ness

Noun

strictness (countable and uncountable, plural strictnesses)

1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being strict.
   • 1749, John Cleland, “part 3”, in Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, London: G. Fenton, OCLC 13050889:

     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.

   Discipline calls for a certain strictness.

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