The Clue
Strictness (5 letter answer)
The Answer
RIGOR
Tags
Notes
The answer RIGOR is common and appears about once every 225 puzzles.
Related Clues
Asperity
Austerity
Difficulty
Discipline
Exactitude
Hardship
Harshness
Inexorability
Inflexibility
Severity
Stiffness
Stringency
Demanding standard
Extreme hardship
Martinet's imposition
Martinet's quality
Strict precision
Boot camp experience
Definition
RIGOR as a noun:
1. (asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness) = something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
2. (cogency, validity, rigor, rigour) = the quality of being logically valid
3. (severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness) = excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"