austerity (n.)
- abstinence
- asceticism
- astringency
- authoritarianism
- baldness
- bareness
- candor
- care
- carefulness
- chariness
- directness
- discipline
- economy
- eremitism
- exiguity
- fasting
- flagellation
- frankness
- frugality
- frugalness
- grimness
- hardness
- harshness
- homespun
- husbandry
- inclemency
- jejuneness
- jejunity
- leanness
- maceration
- management
- meagerness
- meanness
- meticulousness
- miserliness
- monasticism
- mortification
- narrowness
- naturalness
- niggardliness
- openness
- paltriness
- parsimoniousness
- parsimony
- plainness
- prosaicness
- prosiness
- providence
- prudence
- puniness
- puritanism
- regimentation
- rigor
- roughness
- ruggedness
- scantiness
- scantness
- scrawniness
- self-denial
- self-mortification
- severity
- simpleness
- simplicity
- slenderness
- slightness
- slimness
- smallness
- soberness
- spareness
- starkness
- sternness
- stinginess
- straightforwardness
- strictness
- stringency
- thinness
- thrift
- thriftiness
- toughness
- unaffectedness
- vernacular