Antonyms for austerity
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : aw-ster-i-tee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɔˈstɛr ɪ ti |
Definition of austerity
Origin :- mid-14c., "sternness, harshness," from Old French austerite "harshness, cruelty" (14c.) and directly from Late Latin austeritatem (nominative austeritas), from austerus (see austere). Of severe self-discipline, from 1580s; hence "severe simplicity" (1875); applied during World War II to national policies limiting non-essentials as a wartime economy.
- noun severity
- noun refraining; abstinence
- noun grimness, barrenness
- As a foil to his austerity, therefore, she would be audaciously gay in his presence.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Sunday comes, and brings with it a day of general gloom and austerity.
- Extract from : « Sunday under Three Heads » by Charles Dickens
- The sternness of age and the austerity of censoriousness are now silent.
- Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
- They will require a little wine, to mellow the austerity of age, and make them amenable to the laws.
- Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
- His laughter shocked the austerity of that same jack-pudding.
- Extract from : « Captain Blood » by Rafael Sabatini
- Katherine rose and gazed at him with the austerity of an inquisitor.
- Extract from : « Audrey Craven » by May Sinclair
- The austerity of labour alternates, it may be added, with the pleasures of the table.
- Extract from : « The Industries of Animals » by Frdric Houssay
- It is the austerity of his talent, of course, that is in question.
- Extract from : « Notes on Life and Letters » by Joseph Conrad
- To Ernest this was the one redeeming touch to the desert's austerity.
- Extract from : « The Forbidden Trail » by Honor Willsie
- On the contrary, even the freshest faces wore an expression of austerity.
- Extract from : « Balthasar » by Anatole France
Synonyms for austerity
- abstemiousness
- acerbity
- asceticism
- asperity
- astringence
- baldness
- bareness
- chasteness
- chastity
- coldness
- continence
- determination
- dourness
- economy
- exactingness
- exactness
- formality
- formalness
- gravity
- grimness
- hardness
- harshness
- inclemency
- inflexibility
- obduracy
- plainness
- primitiveness
- prudence
- puritanism
- rigidity
- rigor
- rusticism
- self-denial
- self-discipline
- seriousness
- severity
- simplicity
- sobriety
- solemnity
- spareness
- spartanism
- starkness
- sternness
- stiffness
- stoicism
- strictness
- stringency
- temperance
- unadornment
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