austerity
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- noun
- /ɔːˈstɛrɪti/
:
austeridad
- Chapters 4 through 8 are thematic, detailing Douceline's humility, poverty, austerity, innocence, and charity.
- self-imposed austerity
And he, he is the one of one of these guys who started with austerity and that inspired this incredible inventiveness.
- And he, he is the one of one of these guys who started with austerity and that inspired this incredible inventiveness.
- Rather than trying to change this mindset of austerity, whether through therapy, politics or protests, they advocate making do with the lack.
Examples
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The architecture of the Turchine complex reflects the simple austerity of the order.
Academic text (1994) -
In American politics, there's no question that scarcity, austerity, fiscal constraint is making partisanship worse.
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Its limited budget reflected the fact that austerity is often the price of freedom.
Academic text (1994) -
You have a kind of elegant austerity.
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With its single concept and stripped-down means, it celebrated the new austerity.
Academic text (2017) -
In her piety and austerity, she was an example for the other nuns.
Fiction book (1994) -
The new unrest, avowedly religious, stemmed from the austerity that came to Saudi Arabia after Desert Storm.
Academic text (2001) -
Following a brief monastic peregrination, John arrived at Camaldoli, where he followed a life of austerity and abstinence "for many days."
Academic text (2005) -
The consciousness of a collectivity united by many splendors of passion and vehemence, of perseverance and austerity...
Academic text (1993) -
The monks lived in austerity, dedicating their lives to prayer and self-denial.
Synonyms
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9.4
A way of living with very strict self-control that avoids pleasure for religious or spiritual reasons
Choosing not to enjoy pleasures or luxuries to control yourself
A habit of eating and drinking only small amounts to avoid excess
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
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A government action that cuts public spending or raises taxes to reduce debt
How Stern
- Formal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Austerity comes from an old Latin word austerus meaning 'severe' and is the same root as the English adjective austere. Think of a person, like a monk, living plainly and strictly without comforts, so austerity means sternness and extreme self-denial.