'Frugality' definitions:
Definition of 'frugality'
(from WordNet)
noun
Prudence in avoiding waste [syn: frugality, frugalness]
Definition of 'Frugality'
From: GCIDE
- Frugality \Fru*gal"i*ty\, n.; pl. Frugalities. [L. frugalitas: cf. F. frugalit['e].]
- 1. The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; --- opposed to extravagance. [1913 Webster]
- Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A sparing use; sparingness; as, frugality of praise.
- Syn: Economy; parsimony. See Economy. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'frugality'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnegation,
- austerity,
- austerity program,
- canniness,
- care,
- carefulness,
- chariness,
- cheeseparing,
- constraint,
- denial,
- economic planning,
- economicalness,
- economy,
- economy of assumption,
- economy of means,
- elegance,
- false economy,
- forbearance,
- forehandedness,
- frugalness,
- golden mean,
- good management,
- husbandry,
- law of parsimony,
- management,
- moderateness,
- moderation,
- nothing in excess,
- parsimoniousness,
- parsimony,
- pinching,
- providence,
- prudence,
- prudential administration,
- renouncement,
- renunciation,
- restraint,
- scrimping,
- self-control,
- self-denial,
- self-discipline,
- self-mastery,
- self-restraint,
- skimping,
- soberness,
- sobriety,
- sophrosyne,
- sparingness,
- stinting,
- temperance,
- temperateness,
- thrift,
- thriftiness,
- tight purse strings,
- unwastefulness