austerity

English

Etymology

austere +‎ -ity

Noun

austerity (countable and uncountable; plural austerities)

1. Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.
2. Freedom from adornment; plainness; severe simplicity.
3. (economics) A policy of deficit-cutting, lower spending, and a reduction in the amount of benefits and public services provided.
4. (obsolete) Sourness and harshness to the taste.

Antonyms

• (severity of manners or life): comfort

Related terms

• austere
• austerely

Translations

severity of manners or life

Bulgarian: строгост (bg), суровост (bg) Czech: přísnost (cs) f. Finnish: ankaruus (fi), karuus (fi) German: Einschränkung (de) f., Härte (de) f., Strenge (de) f., Austerität (de) f. Greek: λιτότητα (el) (litótita) f. Icelandic: strangleiki (is) m., harka (is) f.

Latin: austēritās (la) f. Portuguese: austeridade (pt) f. Romanian: austeritate (ro) f. Russian: строгость (ru) (strógost') f., суровость (ru) (suróvost') f. Serbo-Croatian: surovost (sh), oporost (sh) Spanish: austeridad (es) f.

sourness and harshness to the taste

Bulgarian: стипчивост (bg) Latin: austēritās (la) f.

Serbo-Croatian: oporost (sh), oštrina (sh)

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French: austérité f. Polish: niedostatek, prostota, surowość

References

• austerity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913