austerity
noun/ɔˈstɛɹɪti/US
Etymology
From Ancient Greek αὐστηρότης (austērótēs, “bitter, harsh”). Morphologically austere + -ity.
Definitions
Severity of manners or life
Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.
Freedom from adornment
Freedom from adornment; plainness; severe simplicity.
- One critic [Madeleine Schwartz] recently noted that the politics of Rooney’s novels were largely “gestural,” with airy mentions of Gaza or austerity protests but not much radical substance.
- The war-torn first half of the 20th century, together with the railway grouping of 1923, ushered in further austerity in design.
- After millenniums of austerity and poverty, the age of limitless “superabundance” was at hand.
A policy of deficit-cutting, which by definition requires lower spending, higher taxes,…
A policy of deficit-cutting, which by definition requires lower spending, higher taxes, or both.
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Sourness and harshness to the taste.
The neighborhood
- antonymcomfortantonym(s) of “severity of manners or life”
- neighboraustere
- neighborausterely
- neighborausteriate
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for austerity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA