[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

stringency \strin"gency\ stri^n"jensy^, n.
   the quality or state of being stringent.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

stringency
     n 1: a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of
          credit syn: tightness
     2: conscientious attention to rules and details syn: strictness
see also:
tightness strictness 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

67 moby thesaurus words for "stringency":
   spartanism, acerbity, acidity, acridity, acrimony, astringency,
   austerity, authoritarianism, bite, bitterness, causticity,
   chinchiness, chintziness, demandingness, discipline, edge,
   exactingness, exiguity, fewness, fierceness, grimness, grip,
   hardness, harshness, inclemency, infrequency, keenness, meagerness,
   meticulousness, miserliness, mordacity, mordancy, niggardliness,
   paucity, poignancy, point, rarity, regimentation, restrictedness,
   rigid discipline, rigor, roughness, ruggedness, scantiness,
   scarcity, scrimpiness, severity, sharpness, skimpiness, smallness,
   sparseness, sparsity, sternness, sting, stinginess, strictness,
   stridency, tartness, teeth, thinness, tightness, toughness,
   trenchancy, ungentleness, vehemence, violence, virulence

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