Synonyms for rigor
ˈrɪg ərrig·or

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1. rigor

   Synonyms:
   cruelty, hardness, harshness, implacability, justice, penalty, punishment, revenge, severity, sternness, vengeance

   Antonyms:
   benevolence, benignity, blessing, clemency, compassion, favor, forbearance, forgiveness, gentleness, grace, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercy, mildness, pardon, pardon, pity, tenderness

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1. asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousnessnoun

   something hard to endure

   "the asperity of northern winters"

   Synonyms:
   hardness, cogency, hard knocks, severeness, austereness, harshness, gruesomeness, asperity, luridness, rigour, stiffness, inclemency, badness, adversity, hardship, rigorousness, sharpness, grimness, severity, rigourousness, ghastliness, validity

2. cogency, validity, rigor, rigournoun

   the quality of being valid and rigorous

   Synonyms:
   cogency, severeness, robustness, hardiness, harshness, hardness, asperity, stiffness, validness, inclemency, hardship, rigorousness, lustiness, grimness, severity, rigourousness, rigour, validity

3. severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffnessnoun

   excessive sternness

   "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"

   Synonyms:
   insensibility, ruggedness, callosity, grimness, awkwardness, severeness, unfeelingness, austereness, harshness, hardness, asperity, stiffness, callousness, scratchiness, roughness, cogency, gracelessness, inclemency, inclementness, badness, bad weather, hardship, rigorousness, cruelty, cruelness, clumsiness, abrasiveness, severity, rigourousness, rigour, validity

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1. rigornoun

   Synonyms:
   stiffness, rigidity, rigidness, inflexibility

2. rigornoun

   Synonyms:
   severity, austerity, harshness, sternness, asperity

3. rigornoun

   Synonyms:
   strictness, exactness

4. rigornoun

   Synonyms:
   inclemency

5. rigornoun

   Synonyms:
   (Med.) sudden coldness with shivering

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1. rigornoun

   Synonyms:
   rigidity, inflexibility, austerity, severity, asperity, sternness, inclemency, stringency

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1. List of paraphrases for "rigor":

   rigour, thoroughness, stiffness, stringency, rigidity, strictness, severity

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1. Danilo Astori:

   Macroeconomic policy will continue under the same criteria that we have had over the last 10 years, we will act with discipline and rigor to control the inflationary pressures that the country still has.

2. David A Mascio:

   We try to apply the academic rigor in finance to the practical application of managing money within our strategies.

3. Assistant Director-General Bruce Aylward:

   We're planning on a full-on six-month effort to really get this thing to zero, if you can bring rigor to this contact tracing, you can drive this thing to zero. You have to hunt the virus.

4. Diana Silver:

   There hasn't been a lot of research about the rigor and depth of enforcement of these laws, and there needs to be, without it, we can't know what contribution these laws can make.

5. Diana Silver:

   However, given the evidence that many underage smokers get their cigarettes from friends or others, efforts to restrict access to those 21 and older may make it much more difficult for 16 and 17 year olds to find a regular source of cigarettes, there hasn't been a lot of research about the rigor and depth of enforcement of these laws, and there needs to be.