rigor
Uncompromising exactitude demanded
Rigor is strictness, severity, or exactness in standards or execution: academic rigor, the rigor of scientific method.
The rigors of something are its harsh or demanding conditions: the rigors of winter, the rigors of basic training.
In medicine, rigor describes a sudden chill with shivering, or the stiffening of death (rigor mortis).
British spelling: rigour.
Degree of correctness
- exactnessCorrectness in every detail
- meticulousnessExtreme carefulness in details
- detailSingle small element
- specificityExactness of detail
calibration · measurement · exactitude · refinement · clarity · sharpness · definition · finesse
Attention to every detail
- perseveranceSustained resolve despite obstacles
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
- persistenceContinuing despite difficulty
- determinationFirmness of purpose
tenacity · conscientiousness · assiduousness · industriousness · doggedness · earnestness · application · tirelessness
Intensity of sternness
- sternnessUncompromising strictness of manner
- strictnessInflexibility in enforcement
- inflexibilityQuality of being unbending
- formalityStrict observance of convention
coldness · gravity · solemnity · seriousness · stringency · unyielding · unbending · firmness
State of being hard
- adversitySevere difficulty or suffering
- struggleLabored effort against resistance
- ordealDifficult, painful experience
- trialJudicial examination of claims
challenge · harshness · severity · toughness · grueling · demanding · endurance · suffering
Developing abilities through practice
- practiceRepeated work toward mastery
- drillHole-boring device
- regimenPrescribed course of treatment
- routineRegular sequence of actions
self-control · focus · preparation · standards · methodology · protocol · structure · framework
Educational funding or erudition
- researchSystematic fact-finding effort
- methodologyFormal procedural framework
- dissertationExtended academic treatise
- thesisAcademic argument requiring defense
analysis · scrutiny · verification · validation · evidence · argumentation · inquiry · examination
accuracy
Degree of correctness
- exactnessCorrectness in every detail
- meticulousnessExtreme carefulness in details
- detailSingle small element
specificity · calibration · measurement · exactitude · refinement · clarity · sharpness · definition · finesse · nicety
thoroughness
Attention to every detail
- perseveranceSustained resolve despite obstacles
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
- persistenceContinuing despite difficulty
determination · tenacity · conscientiousness · assiduousness · industriousness · doggedness · earnestness · application · tirelessness · indefatigability
severity
Intensity of sternness
- sternnessUncompromising strictness of manner
- strictnessInflexibility in enforcement
- inflexibilityQuality of being unbending
formality · coldness · gravity · solemnity · seriousness · stringency · unyielding · unbending · firmness · harshness
difficulty
State of being hard
- adversitySevere difficulty or suffering
- struggleLabored effort against resistance
- ordealDifficult, painful experience
trial · challenge · harshness · severity · toughness · grueling · demanding · endurance · suffering · bleakness
training
Developing abilities through practice
routine · self-control · focus · preparation · standards · methodology · protocol · structure · framework · consistency
scholarship
Educational funding or erudition
- researchSystematic fact-finding effort
- methodologyFormal procedural framework
- dissertationExtended academic treatise
thesis · analysis · scrutiny · verification · validation · evidence · argumentation · inquiry · examination · investigation
stiffening
Becoming less pliable
- chillCold sensation or relaxation
- shiveringInvoluntary bodily trembling
- feverElevated body temperature
tremor · contraction · spasm · hypothermia · pyrexia · symptom · seizure · onset · episode · paroxysm
- critical thinkingcritical thinking, reasoning, logic puzzles, analysis, inference
- carefulnessattention, attentiveness, care, carefulness, caution
- Education valuesliteracy, curiosity, critical thinking, creativity, excellence
- exactitudprecision
- Precision Wordsexact, precision, accuracy, precise, accurate
- self-disciplineself-discipline, self-control, self-regulation, restraint, impulse control
rigorleniency
Mildness in punishment
laxness · permissiveness · indulgence · tolerance · lenity
rigorimprecision
Lack of exactness
inaccuracy · inexactitude · vagueness · inexactness · looseness
- rigor mortisPostmortem muscular rigidity
- rigorous trainingSystematic, demanding instruction
- rigid thinkingInability to adapt mentally
- intellectual rigorDisciplined, exacting thought standards
- academic rigorStrictness in intellectual pursuits
- scientific rigorStrict adherence to method
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