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Havingness vs Savingness - What's the difference?

havingness | savingness |

As nouns the difference between havingness and savingness

is that havingness is the quality of having something while savingness is the quality of being careful not to waste money; frugality; parsimony.

havingness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of having something.
  • A fixation on material possessions.
  • (spirituality) The self-affirming belief that one has certain positive qualities.

    • savingness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being careful not to waste money; frugality; parsimony.
  • * 1885 , Helen Hunt Jackson, Zeph: A Posthumous Story
    • Her love of a good dinner herself, and her still keener love of the approbation she won by setting it before others, kept up perpetual warfare with her savingness
  • Tendency to promote religious salvation.
    • (Johnson)
    (Webster 1913)