Austerity synonyms

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self-denial
The act of refusing to recognize unpleasant facts even when presented by one's self.
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self-discipline
Control of oneself, willpower.
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simplicity
Freedom from artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness; as, simplicity of dress, of style, or of language; simplicity of diet; simplicity of life.
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sternness
(Uncountable) The state or quality of being stern.
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joy (antonym)
Intense and especially ecstatic or exultant happiness, or an instance of such feeling.
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seriousness
The state or quality of being serious.
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harshness
The quality of being harsh.
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asperity
Asperity means something that is rough or harsh.
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hardness
An instance of this quality; hardship.
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uncompromisingness
The condition of being uncompromising
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rigor
Extreme hardship or difficulty
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exuberance (antonym)
(Uncountable) The quality of being exuberant; cheerful or vigorous enthusiasm; liveliness.
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rigidity
The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form.
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strictness
(Uncountable) The state or quality of being strict.
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severity
Extreme plainness or restraint, as in style
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grimness
The characteristic or quality of being grim
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formality
A formal or conventional act or requirement; ceremony or form, often without practical meaning
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gravity
Gravitation, esp. terrestrial gravitation; force that tends to draw all bodies in the earth's sphere toward the center of the earth
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asceticism
The definition of asceticism is a practice in which one gets rid of worldly pleasures and focuses on thinking, particularly for religious or spiritual purposes.
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abstemiousness
The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing, particularly in the use of food and strong drinks. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
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puritanism
The beliefs and practices of the Puritans
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plainness
(Uncountable) The condition of being plain (in all senses)
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spareness
(Uncountable) The state or quality of being spare.
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starkness
(Uncountable) The state or quality of being stark.
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Spartanism
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belt-tightening
A reduction of expenditures; economizing
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mercy (antonym)
(Countable) Instances of forbearance or forgiveness.
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luxury (antonym)
Something that is desirable but expensive or hard to obtain or do:
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casualness (antonym)
The state of being casual.
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abandonment (antonym)
The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. [Late 16th century.]
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indulgence (antonym)
Catering to someone's every desire
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elaborateness (antonym)
(Uncountable) The state of being elaborate
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luxuriousness (antonym)
The state or property of being luxurious, of being expensive or indulgently pleasant.
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spending (antonym)
An amount that has been, or is planned to be spent
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extravagance (antonym)
Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money
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blandness (antonym)
The state, quality, or characteristic of being bland.
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mildness (antonym)
The quality of being mild; gentleness
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meekness (antonym)
The quality of being meek
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gentility (antonym)
The quality of being genteel; now, specif., excessive or affected refinement and elegance
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calmness (antonym)
(Countable) The product of being calm.
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lenience (antonym)
(Countable) A leniency: a specific act or instance of leniency.
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permissiveness (antonym)
The relative likelihood of something or someone to grant permission or allow something to happen.
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rigorousness
The property of being rigorous, strictness.
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toughness
(Uncountable) The state of being tough
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easy (related)
The fact or condition of being rigorous and unsparing
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nonindulgence
the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)
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exiguousness
The quality of being meagre or scanty
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frugalness
The property of being frugal.
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matter-of-factness
The property of behaving in a matter-of-fact manner.
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niggardliness
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parsimoniousness
The state or condition of being parsimonious.
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prosaicness
The characteristic of being prosaic.
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prosiness
The quality or state of being prosy; tediousness.
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restrainedness
The state or property of being restrained.
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scrawniness
The property of being scrawny.
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skimpiness
The property of being skimpy.
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unadornedness
The state or quality of being unadorned.
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unfussiness
The state or condition of being unfussy; lack of fussiness.
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unimaginativeness
Lack of imagination.
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privation (related)
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barbarism (related)
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despotism (related)
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economicalness
The quality of being economical.
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  • His pride and austerity made him unpopular at court and he left the country in 1642, settling at last in Padua, where he died in 1646.

  • His life of ostentatious austerity, and the courage with which he met his death, had caused all his faults to be forgotten.

  • In the Constituent Assembly his oratorical gifts, legal knowledge and austerity of life gave him much influence.

  • There was nothing of stoical austerity or of rhetorical indignation in the tone in which he treated the vices and follies of his time.

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