| This paper introduces and justifies a similarity-based concept of strict fuzzy orderingsand provides constructions how fuzzy orderings can be transformed into strict fuzzy orderings andvice versa. We demonstrate that there is a meaningful correspondence between fuzzy orderingsand strict fuzzy orderings. Unlike the classical case, however, we do not obtain a general oneto-one correspondence. We observe that the strongest results are achieved if the underlying tnorminduces a strong negation, which, in particular, includes nilpotent t-norms and the nilpotentminimum. |