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