FRUGALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does frugality mean? 

• FRUGALITY (noun)
  The noun FRUGALITY has 1 sense:

1. prudence in avoiding waste

  Familiarity information: FRUGALITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRUGALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prudence in avoiding waste

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

frugality; frugalness

Hypernyms ("frugality" is a kind of...):

prudence (discretion in practical affairs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "frugality"):

parsimoniousness; parsimony; penny-pinching; thrift (extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)

economy; thriftiness (frugality in the expenditure of money or resources)

Derivation:

frugal (avoiding waste)

 Context examples 

YOUR sense of honour and honesty would have led you, I know, when aware of your situation, to attempt all the economy that would appear to you possible: and, perhaps, as long as your frugality retrenched only on your own comfort, you might have been suffered to practice it, but beyond that—and how little could the utmost of your single management do to stop the ruin which had begun before your marriage?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Had there been a family to provide for, Mrs. Norris might never have saved her money; but having no care of that kind, there was nothing to impede her frugality, or lessen the comfort of making a yearly addition to an income which they had never lived up to.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She saw them in an instant in their parsonage-house; saw in Lucy, the active, contriving manager, uniting at once a desire of smart appearance with the utmost frugality, and ashamed to be suspected of half her economical practices;—pursuing her own interest in every thought, courting the favour of Colonel Brandon, of Mrs. Jennings, and of every wealthy friend.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)