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strictness

noun

Etymology

From strict + -ness.

  1. borrowed from strictus
  2. suffixed as strictness — “strict + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being strict.

    • Discipline calls for a certain strictness.
    • 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.

  2. The result or product of being strict.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at strictness. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at strictness. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at strictness

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA