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Definition: Austerity |
AusterityNoun1. The trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "austerity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Etymology: Austerity \Aus*ter"i*ty\, noun; plural Austerities. [French aust['e]rit['e], Latin austerias, from austerus. See Austere.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: AusteritySynonyms: asceticism (n), nonindulgence (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Asceticism | Noun: asceticism, puritanism, sabbatarianism; cynicism, austerity; total abstinence; nephalism. |
Discourtesy | Churlishness; Adjective: spinosity, perversity; moroseness; (sullenness) a. sternness; Adjective: austerity; moodishness, captiousness; cynicism; tartness; Adjective: acrimony, acerbity, virulence, asperity. |
Impiety | Hypocrisy; (falsehood); pietism, cant, pious fraud; lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence; misdevotion, formalism, austerity; sanctimony, sanctimoniousness; adj; pharisaism, precisianism; sabbatism, sabbatarianism; odium theologicum, sacerdotalism; bigotry; (obstinacy), (prejudice); blue laws. |
Severity | Noun: severity; strictness, harshness; Adjective: rigor, stringency, austerity; inclemency; (pitilessness) a; arrogance; precisianism. |
Unsavoriness | Noun: unsavoriness. Adjective: amaritude; acrimony, acridity (bitterness) b; roughness. (sour); acerbity, austerity; gall and wormwood, rue, quassia, aloes; marah; sickener. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Austerity |
| English words defined with "austerity": Austerities ♦ Cistercian ♦ Graham ♦ Laconize ♦ Martha Graham ♦ Puritanism ♦ Trappist. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "austerity": GSM-5, Direct Export Credit Program ♦ HUMORIST. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Marry an old man like me and you'll have liberty, security, and austerity. (Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud; writing credit: Jacques Fieschi; Claude Sautet) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | It might be partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress, and partly to the lack of demonstration in her manners. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | And the tone of austerity confronted the tone of severity. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Instead, those years were years of austerity with a sharp decline in the sales of imported vehicles. (references) | |
At the end of 1988, in reaction to a surge of inflation caused by accelerated price reforms, the leadership introduced an austerity program. (references) | ||
Maintenance expenditures will become increasingly critical to avoid costs associated with installing new equipment, especially in times of austerity. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Niger | On February 21, at Kennedy Bridge in Niamey, police forcibly dispersed a group of students who were protesting scholarship arrears and education austerity measures. (references) |
Economic History | Ghana | Import austerity was imposed and external payments arrears cut. (references) |
Slovak Rep | Due to tight austerity policies, the fiscal and current account deficits have dropped sharply. (references) | |
Human Rights | Argentina | Budget austerity has deferred indefinitely planned construction of additional facilities. (references) |
Political Economy | Austria | Economically, they support austerity measures and a balanced budget. (references) |
HUNGARY | In 1997, Hungary eliminated an import surcharge imposed as part of the March 1995 austerity package. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Ecuador | There were several significant strikes during the year, mainly in response to government austerity measures. (references) |
Argentina | The major strikes were generally protests against the economic model or specific government austerity measures aimed to balance the federal budget. (references) | |
Gabon | This procedure has not been followed since 1994, in part because the Government was pursuing a policy of wage austerity recommended by international financial institutions. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick. Lo! the poor humorist, whose tortured mind See jokes in crowds, though still to gloom inclined -- Whose simple appetite, untaught to stray, His brains, renewed by night, consumes by day. He thinks, admitted to an equal sty, A graceful hog would bear his company. Alexander Poke |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Austerity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.75% of the time. "Austerity" is used about 396 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.75% | 395 | 14,105 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 396 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "austerity": economic austerity. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "austerity": austerity-rationed. | |
Ending with "austerity": anti-austerity, prefabricated-austerity. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
austerity | 5 |
austerity program | 5 |
austerity nova program terra | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "austerity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ashpërsi (acrimony, asperity, coarseness, dourness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorism, rigour, roughness, savagery, severity, sharpness, toughness, tyranny), rreptësi (rigor, rigorism, rigour, severity, stringency), jetë asketike. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قسوة (asperity, cruelty, hardheartedness, hardness, harshness, inexorability, inhumanity, mercilessness, pitilessness, rigidity, rigor, rigour, ruggedness, severity, sternness, strictness, stringency, violence), تقشف (abstention, abstinence, abstinent), صرامة (firmness, fortitude, frankness, hardness, obduracy, rigidity, rigor, rigorism, rigour, severity, sternness, strictness, stringency, tightness, toughness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | суровост (asperity, hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigour, roughness, rudeness, severity), строгост (chastity, hardness, restraint, rigidity, rigor, rigorism, rigour, severity), режим на строги ограничения, непреклонност (implacability, inflexibility, rigidity, rigor, rigour), неприветливост (verjuice, wintriness), аскетичност, пуританство (puritanism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 冰霜 (moral integrity), 严肃 (Austere, Austereness, Austerities, serious, severity, sombre). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | strohost (curtness), prostota (homeliness, innocence, simplicity), přísnost (rigour, severity, sternness, stiffness, strictness, stringency, tightness, toughness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | spareprogram (austerity programme), sparepolitik (austerity policy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bezuinigingsprogramma (austerity programme), bezuinigingsplan (austerity programme), bezuinigingsbeleid (austerity policy), bezuinigingen (austerity policy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تروشروءی (Glower), سختی (Accolade, Buckram, Difficulty, Duration, Duress, Granite, Hardship, Implacability, Inflexibility, Privation, Resistance, Rigidity, Severity, Solidity, Stress, Tenacity, Violence), سادگی زیاده ازحد, ریاضت (Abstinence, Penance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | austérité, obscurité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Einschränkung (economizing, limitation, moderation, privation, qualification, reduction, reservation, restraint, restriction, restrictiveness, retrenchment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λιτότητα (chastity, frugality, frugalness, thrift), απλότησ (artlessness, homeliness, plainness, rusticity, simpleness, simplicity, singleness), αυστηρότησ (rigor, rigour, severeness, severity, sternness, strictness, stringency), αυστηρότητα (rigor, rigour, severeness, severity, sternness, strictness, stringency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קפ" ות (meticulousness, observation, pedantry, preciseness, precision, rigor, rigour, severity, strictness), פשטות (naturalness, obviousness, simplicity, unpretentiousness), צ ע (modesty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szigorúság (asperity, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigorism, severity, sternness, stringency), megszorítások (severities), mérsékletesség (continence, frugality), egyszerűség (artlessness, domesticity, modesty, self-denial, severity, simplicity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kesederhanaan (modesty, plainness, simplicity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | austerit (sternness), severit (astringence, astringences, harshness, severity, sternness, strictness, stringency, topmast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 耐乏 (voluntary privation), 厳粛 (dignity, gravity, rigor, seriousness, severity, solemnity), 厳 (rigid, rigor, severe, strictness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たいぼう (ambition, appearance, aspiration, expectant waiting, voluntary privation), '"しゅく (dignity, gravity, rigor, seriousness, severity, solemnity), '"かく (hallucination, illusion, rigid, rigor, severe, strictness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 엄격 (Austereness, Austerities, severity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | geyrid (abruptness, acidity, acridity, acuteness, definition, discernment, hardness, hardness of sound, incisiveness, intensity, keenness, mordacity, poignancy, pointedness, pungency, quickness of sight, rigidity, rigour of the law, sharpness, sourness, stiffness, strictness, stringency), gargid (acridity, acrimoniousness, acrimony, asperity, brusqueness, harshness, harshness of wine, pungency, tartness), chionnid (compactness, stiffness, strain, tautness, tenseness, tension), chenjys (oppression). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | austerityay austeridade (rigidity, rigor, rigour, severity, stoicism), abnegação (abnegation, self-denial), severidade (asperity, exactness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigorism, rigour, roughness, severity, stringency), parcimônia (chariness, parsimony, providence, thrift). (various references) austeritate (grimness, sternness), ascetism (asceticism, monasticism), sobrietate (severity, sobriety, temperance), gravitate (bumptiousness, depth, gravity, seriousness, severity, soberness, solemnity). (various references) строгость (rigor, severity, strictness, stringency). (various references) asketizam (asceticism), surovost (brutality, inclemency, rigor, rigour, roughness), strogost (exaction, firmness, rigor, rigorism, rigour, severity, sternness, strictness, stringency), isposništvo (asceticism). (various references) austeridad (astringency, dourness, severity). (various references) allvar (earnest, earnestness, gravity, seriousness), torftighet (bareness), stramhet (tightness), stränghet (asperity, hardness, inclemency, rigidity, rigour, severity, stringency), hårdhet (firmness, hardness, obduracy, severity), åtstramning (contraction, squeeze). (various references) ความเคร่งครั", ความมัธยัสถ์ (economy). (various references) tasarruf (economy, possession, Providence, provident, retrenchment, saving, thriftiness), sertlik (asperity, bitterness, curtness, fierceness, firmness, hardness, harshness, headiness, inclemency, intemperance, kick, pungency, rigidity, rigor, rigour, severity, sharpness, solidity, starch, sternness, stiffness, stoniness, strength, strictness, stringency, tartness, toughness, vehemence, wiriness), sadelik (frugality, homeliness, plainness, severity, simpleness, simplicity), masraftan kısma, haşinlik (asperity, harshness, roughness, rudeness). (various references) суворість (asperity, astringency, cruelty, hardness, inclemency, rigidity, rigor, rigour, rudeness, strictness, stringency), строгість (astringency), терпкість (acerbity, astringency), економія (retrenchment, saving), простота (artlessness, homeliness, plainness, rusticity, severity, simpleness, simplicity). (various references) sự nghiêm khắc (austereness, rigidity), sự khắt khe (austereness), sự khổ hạnh (austereness), sự giản dị khắc khổ vị chát (austereness), sự chặt chẽ sự mộc mạc (austereness), sự chân phương sự khắc khổ (austereness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Austerity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adstitit, Ashteroth, asterite, auctorytye, Austritt, osterity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "austerity" (pronounced ô'ste"rutē) |
| 7 | -s t e" r u t ē | dexterity, posterity. |
| 5 | -e" r u t ē | charity, clarity, disparity, familiarity, hilarity, insularity, irregularity, parity, peculiarity, polarity, popularity, prosperity, rarity, regularity, severity, similarity, sincerity, solidarity, temerity, unfamiliarity, unpopularity, Verity, vulgarity. |
| 4 | -r u t ē | alacrity, authority, barbarity, celebrity, dissimilarity, immaturity, impurity, inferiority, insecurity, integrity, majority, maturity, mediocrity, minority, obscurity, particularity, priority, purity, security, seniority, sorority, superiority, supermajority, surety. |
| 3 | -u t ē | ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, authenticity, availability, banality, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, centrality, chastity, civility, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disunity, diversity, divinity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, mendacity, mentality, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, partiality, passivity, paternity, paucity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polity, pomposity, portability, possibility, practicality, predictability, principality, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, proximity, publicity, punctuality, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, seasonality, selectivity, senility, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, sexuality, simplicity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidity, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, uniformity, unity, universality, university, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulnerability. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-r-s-t-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: artiest, artiste, attires, estuary, iratest, ratites, satiety, situate, stature, striate, tastier, turista, yatters, yttrias. | |
-3 letters: airest, artist, astute, attire, aurist, estray, ratite, satire, sitter, stater, statue, stayer, strait, strati, striae, suiter, surety, taster, taters, tauter, terais, tetras, titers, titres, traits, treats, treaty, triste, truest, trusty, tryste, tuyers, urates, utters, yarest, yatter, yttria. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-r-s-t-t-u-y" | |
+4 letters: gesticulatory, superactivity. | |
+5 letters: antiuniversity, hyperstimulate, illustratively, instrumentally, intersexuality, transsexuality. | |
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