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frugality

noun
/fɹuːˈɡæləti/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French frugalité. By surface analysis, frugal + -ity.

  1. borrowed from frugalité

Definitions

  1. The quality of being frugal

    The quality of being frugal; prudent economy.

    • Near-synonyms: (usually admirable) economy, thrift, thriftiness, parsimony; (excessive degree) tightness, stinginess; (extreme degree) miserliness; see also Thesaurus:frugal, Thesaurus:stingy
    • With the frugality that hard graft begets, his mate limited both his and her own tobacco, so he must not smoke all afternoon.

  2. A sparing use

    A sparing use; sparingness.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at frugality. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at frugality. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at frugality

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA