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austerity
Synonyms and Antonyms of austerity
- They moved off the grid to live a life of austerity.
asceticism, frugality, mortification, sacrifice, self-command, self-containment, self-denial, self-mastery
constraint, control, discipline, restraint, self-control, self-discipline
abnegation, abstention, avoidance, eschewal, forbearance
rationality, rationalness, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibility, sensibleness
- His air of austerity tends to put others off.
asceticism, austereness, monasticism
callousness, hard-heartedness, implacability, obduracy, obdurateness, pitilessness
determination, firmness, resolve, steadfastness
exactingness, hardness, harshness, inflexibility, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, severity, sternness, strictness, stringency
- His family spent years living in austerity during the recession.
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