Synonyms for frugality

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1. frugality, frugalness(noun)

   prudence in avoiding waste

   Synonyms:
   frugalness

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1. frugality(noun)

   Synonyms:
   parsimony, thriftiness

2. frugality(noun)

   The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; thrift.

   Synonyms:
   thriftiness, parsimony

3. frugality(noun)

   A sparing use; sparingness.

   Synonyms:
   thriftiness, parsimony

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1. frugality

   Economy is a wise and careful administration of the means at one's disposal; frugality is a withholding of expenditure, or sparing of supplies or provision, to a noticeable and often to a painful degree; parsimony is excessive and unreasonable saving for the sake of saving. Frugality exalted into a virtue to be practised for its own sake, instead of as a means to an end, becomes the vice of parsimony. Miserliness is the denying oneself and others the ordinary comforts or even necessaries of life, for the mere sake of hoarding money. Prudence and providence look far ahead, and sacrifice the present to the future, saving as much as may be necessary for that end. (See PRUDENCE.) Thrift seeks not merely to save, but to earn. Economy manages, frugality saves, providence plans, thrift at once earns and saves, with a view to wholesome and profitable expenditure at a fitting time. See ABSTINENCE.

   Synonyms:
   economy, miserliness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, providence, prudence, saving, scrimping, sparing, thrift

   Antonyms:
   abundance, affluence, bounty, extravagance, liberality, luxury, opulence, riches, waste, wealth

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1. frugality(n.)

   Synonyms:
   economy, thrift, thriftiness, good husbandry

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1. frugality(n)

   Synonyms:
   economy, parsimony, thriftiness, thrift

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1. List of paraphrases for "frugality":

   thrift, austerity

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1. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu:

   I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:The first is deep love,The second is frugality,And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world.Because of deep love, one is courageous.Because of frugality, one is generous.Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

2. The Hitopadesa:

   Frugality should ever be practised, but not excessive parsimony.

3. John Adams:

   Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society.

4. Amy Dacyczyn:

   Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

5. Lao Tzu:

   I have three treasures. Guard and keep them The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

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