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frugality noun [ fruːˈɡalɪti ]

• the quality of being economical with money or food; thriftiness.
• "he scorned the finer things in life and valued frugality and simplicity"
Similar: thriftiness, carefulness, scrimping and saving, conservation, good management, caution, prudence, providence, canniness, abstemiousness, abstinence, austerity, asceticism, self-discipline, restraint, moderation, puritanism, monasticism, monkishness, miserliness, meanness, parsimoniousness, niggardliness, close-fistedness, tight-fistedness, tightness, stinginess, sparingness,
Opposite: extravagance,


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