All austerity synonyms

noun austerity

• severity — harshness, sternness, or rigor: Their lives were marked by severity.
• rigor — strictness, severity, or harshness, as in dealing with people.
• prudence — a female given name.
• self-discipline — discipline and training of oneself, usually for improvement: Acquiring the habit of promptness requires self-discipline.
• harshness — ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect: harsh treatment; harsh manners.
• strictness — characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
• formality — condition or quality of being formal; accordance with required or traditional rules, procedures, etc.; conventionality.
• sternness — firm, strict, or uncompromising: stern discipline.
• solemnity — the state or character of being solemn; earnestness; gravity; impressiveness: the solemnity of a state funeral.
• acerbity — Acerbity is a kind of bitter, critical humour.
• gravity — the force of attraction by which terrestrial bodies tend to fall toward the center of the earth.
• seriousness — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
• coldness — having a relatively low temperature; having little or no warmth: cold water; a cold day.
• stiffness — rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar.
• obduracy — the state or quality of being obdurate.
• inflexibility — not flexible; incapable of or resistant to being bent; rigid: an inflexible steel rod.
• stringency — stringent character or condition: the stringency of poverty.
• asperity — If you say something with asperity, you say it impatiently and severely.
• grimness — stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
• hardness — the state or quality of being hard: the hardness of ice.
• rigidity — stiff or unyielding; not pliant or flexible; hard: a rigid strip of metal.
• inclemency — (of the weather, the elements, etc.) severe, rough, or harsh; stormy.
• formalness — being in accordance with the usual requirements, customs, etc.; conventional: to pay one's formal respects.
• temperance — moderation or self-restraint in action, statement, etc.; self-control.
• sobriety — the state or quality of being sober.
• continence — self-restraint; moderation
• chastity — the state of being chaste; purity
• stoicism — a systematic philosophy, dating from around 300 b.c., that held the principles of logical thought to reflect a cosmic reason instantiated in nature.
• abstemiousness — sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet.
• determination — Determination is the quality that you show when you have decided to do something and you will not let anything stop you.
• self-denial — the sacrifice of one's own desires; unselfishness.
• puritanism — the principles and practices of the Puritans.
• economy — thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.
• chaste — If you describe a person or their behaviour as chaste, you mean that they do not have sex with anyone, or they only have sex with their husband or wife.
• asceticism — Asceticism is a simple, strict way of life with no luxuries or physical pleasures.
• simplicity — the state, quality, or an instance of being simple.
• severity — harshness, sternness, or rigor: Their lives were marked by severity.
• bareness — without covering or clothing; naked; nude: bare legs.
• plainness — clear or distinct to the eye or ear: a plain trail to the river; to stand in plain view.
• stark — sheer, utter, downright, or complete: stark madness.
• spareness — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
• baldness — having little or no hair on the scalp: a bald head; a bald person.
• primitiveness — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
• graveness — serious or solemn; sober: a grave person; grave thoughts.
• soberness — not intoxicated or drunk.
• somberness — gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted: a somber passageway.
• rigour — strictness, severity, or harshness, as in dealing with people.
• astringence — Alternative spelling of astringency.
• shortage — a deficiency in quantity: a shortage of cash.
• scarcity — insufficiency or shortness of supply; dearth.