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Synonyms:
- bleakness, gravity, pettiness, bluntness, preciseness, nonindulgence, abnegation, frostiness, capitalist, belt-tightening, purity, meanness, gutter, ascesis, dryness, abstemiousness, sobriety, boom and bust, clarity, chastity, coolness, asceticism, explosiveness, destitution, thrift, innocence, boom, cheapness, stiffness, sternness, simplicity, abstinence, credit crunch, intensity, consumer confidence, severity, celibacy, parsimony, crystallinity, poverty, refinement, prudence, rigidity, sober-mindedness, miserliness, bareness, repentance, self-denial, penury, want, harshness, Spartanism, causticity, self-deprivation, stinginess, artlessness, chilliness, uncompromisingness, tightness, hardness, the poorhouse, sparingness, savageness, matter-of-factness, stringency, acerbity, correctness, depression, gruffness, terseness, conservation, asperity, stoicism, seriousness, deflation, restraint, brusqueness, soberness, crispness, extremity, economy, briskness, agronomics, teetotalism, buoyancy, formality, sharpness, baldness, subsistence level, keenness, authoritarianism, strictness, acuteness, meagerness, singleness, privation, directness, leanness, rigorousness, puritanism, abruptness, spareness, astringency, candor, unsophistication, temperance, moderation, moderateness, deprivation, meticulousness, grimness, easy, discipline, plainness, self-discipline, toughness, oppressiveness, rigor, ferociousness, frugality, starkness
Examples:
- - When I spoke to her, she started and shrank away; but there was an austerity in the lonely white road and in the country silence which must have chilled a woman like her; and her bags were many and seemed heavy. - "Friendship Village", Zona Gale
- - The patrons and friends of the early poets were the more liberal members of the aristocracy, in whom the austerity of the national character and narrowness of the national mind had yielded to new ideas and a wider experience. - "The Roman Poets of the Republic", W. Y. Sellar
- - A wife of such rigid austerity would suit him, for he would often be compelled to leave her a long time alone. - "The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers", Georg Ebers
