savingness

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noun

The quality of being careful not to waste money; frugality; parsimony.

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Meanings

nounsavingness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe 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. uncountableTendency to promote religious salvation.

Origin

From saving + -ness.

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APA

savingness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/savingness

MLA

“savingness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/savingness. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “savingness,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/savingness.

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