stringency (n.)
- acerbity
- acidity
- acridity
- acrimony
- astringency
- austerity
- authoritarianism
- bite
- bitterness
- discipline
- edge
- exiguity
- fewness
- fierceness
- grimness
- grip
- hardness
- harshness
- inclemency
- infrequency
- keenness
- meagerness
- meticulousness
- miserliness
- mordacity
- niggardliness
- paucity
- poignancy
- point
- rarity
- regimentation
- rigor
- roughness
- ruggedness
- scantiness
- scarcity
- severity
- sharpness
- smallness
- sparseness
- sparsity
- sternness
- sting
- stinginess
- strictness
- stridency
- tartness
- teeth
- thinness
- tightness
- toughness
- trenchancy
- vehemence
- violence
- virulence