Austerity synonyms
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The act of refusing to recognize unpleasant facts even when presented by one's self.
joy (antonym)
Intense and especially ecstatic or exultant happiness, or an instance of such feeling.
The state or quality of being serious.
Asperity means something that is rough or harsh.
uncompromisingness
The condition of being uncompromising
Extreme hardship or difficulty
exuberance (antonym)
(Uncountable) The quality of being exuberant; cheerful or vigorous enthusiasm; liveliness.
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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(Uncountable) The state or quality of being strict.
Extreme plainness or restraint, as in style
A formal or conventional act or requirement; ceremony or form, often without practical meaning
Gravitation, esp. terrestrial gravitation; force that tends to draw all bodies in the earth's sphere toward the center of the earth
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.
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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Spartanism
belt-tightening
A reduction of expenditures; economizing
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:
casualness (antonym)
The state of being casual.
abandonment (antonym)
The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. [Late 16th century.]
indulgence (antonym)
elaborateness (antonym)
(Uncountable) The state of being elaborate
luxuriousness (antonym)
The state or property of being luxurious, of being expensive or indulgently pleasant.
extravagance (antonym)
Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money
mildness (antonym)
The quality of being mild; gentleness
gentility (antonym)
The quality of being genteel; now, specif., excessive or affected refinement and elegance
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.
The property of being rigorous, strictness.
easy (related)
The fact or condition of being rigorous and unsparing
nonindulgence
the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)
frugalness
The property of being frugal.
matter-of-factness
The property of behaving in a matter-of-fact manner.
niggardliness
The state or condition of being parsimonious.
prosaicness
The characteristic of being prosaic.
prosiness
The quality or state of being prosy; tediousness.
restrainedness
The state or property of being restrained.
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scrawniness
The property of being scrawny.
skimpiness
The property of being skimpy.
unadornedness
The state or quality of being unadorned.
unimaginativeness
Lack of imagination.
privation (related)
barbarism (related)
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despotism (related)
economicalness
The quality of being economical.
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