Austerity vs Ascetic - What's the difference?
austerity | ascetic |
Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.
Freedom from adornment; plainness; severe simplicity.
(economics) A policy of deficit-cutting, which by definition requires lower spending, higher taxes, or both.
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(obsolete) Sourness and harshness to the taste.
Of or relating to ascetics; characterized by rigorous self-denial or self-discipline; austere; abstinent; involving a withholding of physical pleasure.
* Sir Walter Scott
One who is devoted to the practice of self-denial, either through seclusion or stringent abstinence.
As nouns the difference between austerity and ascetic
is that austerity is severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline while ascetic is one who is devoted to the practice of self-denial, either through seclusion or stringent abstinence.As an adjective ascetic is
of or relating to ascetics; characterized by rigorous self-denial or self-discipline; austere; abstinent; involving a withholding of physical pleasure.austerity
English
Noun
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Antonyms
* (severity of manners or life) comfortReferences
*ascetic
English
(wikipedia ascetic)Alternative forms
* ascetick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The stern ascetic rigor of the Temple discipline.