1. (n.) Sourness and harshness to the taste.

2. (n.) Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.

3. (n.) Plainness; freedom from adornment; severe simplicity.

Albigensianism Catharism Franciscanism Lenten fare Sabbatarianism Spartan simplicity Spartanism Trappism Waldensianism Yoga abstinence anchoritic monasticism anchoritism asceticism astringency austerity program authoritarianism baldness bareness candor canniness care carefulness chariness common speech demandingness directness discipline economic planning economicalness economy economy of means eremitism exactingness exiguity exiguousness false economy fasting flagellation forehandedness frankness frugality frugalness good management grimness hardness harshness homespun household words husbandry inclemency inornateness jejuneness jejunity leanness maceration management matter-of-factness meagerness meanness mendicantism meticulousness miserliness monachism monasticism mortification narrowness naturalness openness paltriness parsimoniousness parsimony plain English plain speaking plain speech plain style plain words plainness prosaicness prosiness providence prudence prudential administration puniness puritanism regimentation restrainedness rigid discipline rigor roughness ruggedness rustic style scantiness scantness scrawniness scrimpiness self-denial self-mortification severity simpleness simplicity skimpiness slenderness slightness slim pickings slimness smallness soberness spareness sparingness starkness sternness stinginess straightforwardness strictness stringency thinness thrift thriftiness tight purse strings toughness unadorned style unadornedness unaffectedness unelaborateness unfanciness unfussiness ungentleness unimaginativeness unpoeticalness unwastefulness vernacular voluntary poverty