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savingness

savingness noun: the quality of being careful not to waste money; frugality; parsimony.

Noun

savingness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being careful not to waste money; frugality; parsimony.
    • 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 […]1885, Helen Hunt Jackson, Zeph: A Posthumous Story
  2. Tendency to promote religious salvation.

Origin of savingness

From saving + -ness.

Questions about savingness

What does savingness mean?
Savingness means the quality of being careful not to waste money; frugality; parsimony.
What part of speech is savingness?
Savingness is a noun.

Words near savingness in the dictionary

  1. saving versus
  2. saving vs.
  3. saving your presence
  4. saving your reverence
  5. savingly
  6. savingness
  7. savingram
  8. savingrams
  9. savings
  10. savings account
  11. savings accounts

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