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Austerity

Austerity Meaning & Definition
Austerity Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Austerity?

[n] the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Austerity: asceticism | nonindulgence

Related Terms | Find terms related to Austerity: abstinence | Albigensianism | anchoritic monasticism | anchoritism | asceticism | astringency | austerity program | authoritarianism | baldness | bareness | candor | canniness | care | carefulness | Catharism | chariness | common speech | demandingness | directness | discipline | economic planning | economicalness | economy | economy of means | eremitism | exactingness | exiguity | exiguousness | false economy | fasting | flagellation | forehandedness | Franciscanism | frankness | frugality | frugalness | good management | grimness | hardness | harshness | homespun | household words | husbandry | inclemency | inornateness | jejuneness | jejunity | leanness | Lenten fare | maceration | management | matter-of-factness | meagerness | meanness | mendicantism | meticulousness | miserliness | monachism | monasticism | mortification | narrowness | naturalness | niggardliness | openness | paltriness | parsimoniousness | parsimony | plain English | plain speaking | plain speech | plain style | plain words | plainness | prosaicness | prosiness | providence | prudence | prudential administration | puniness | puritanism | regimentation | restrainedness | rigid discipline | rigor | roughness | ruggedness | rustic style | Sabbatarianism | scantiness | scantness | scrawniness | scrimpiness | self-denial | self-mortification | severity | simpleness | simplicity | skimpiness | slenderness | slightness | slim pickings | slimness | smallness | soberness | spareness | sparingness | Spartan simplicity | Spartanism | starkness | sternness | stinginess | straightforwardness | strictness | stringency | thinness | thrift | thriftiness | tight purse strings | toughness | Trappism | unadorned style | unadornedness | unaffectedness | unelaborateness | unfanciness | unfussiness | ungentleness | unimaginativeness | unpoeticalness | unwastefulness | vernacular | voluntary poverty | Waldensianism | Yoga

See Also | monasticism | self-denial | self-discipline

Austerity In Webster's Dictionary

\Aus*ter"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Austerities}. [F. aust['e]rit['e], L. austerias, fr. austerus. See {Austere}.] 1. Sourness and harshness to the taste. [Obs.] --Horsley. 2. Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline. The austerity of John the Baptist. --Milton. 3. Plainness; freedom from adornment; severe simplicity. Partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress, and partly to the lack of demonstration in her manners. --Hawthorne.

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