frugality

Noun

frugality (countable and uncountable, plural frugalities)

1. The quality of being frugal; prudent economy.
   • Near-synonyms: (usually admirable) economy, thrift, thriftiness, parsimony; (excessive degree) tightness, stinginess; (extreme degree) miserliness; see also Thesaurus:frugal, Thesaurus:stingy
   • 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—1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 47

   Synonyms:

   economy, thrift, thriftiness, parsimony, tightness, stinginess, miserliness

2. A sparing use; sparingness.