different between bravery vs austerity

English

Etymology

French braverie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?e?v.?.?i/, /?b?e?v.?i/

Noun

bravery (usually uncountable, plural braveries)

1. (usually uncountable) Being brave, courageousness.
2. (countable) A brave act.
3. Splendor, magnificence
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 34:

     Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,

     And make me travel forth without my cloak,

     To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,

     Hiding thy brav'ry in their rotten smoke?

   • In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon

Synonyms

• (being brave): bravehood, braveness, courageousness, fearlessness; courage, pluck, valor; see also Thesaurus:courage

Related terms

• bravado
• brave
• bravure

Translations

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (aust?rót?s, “bitter, harsh”).

Morphologically austere +? -ity

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??st???ti/, enPR: ôst?r??t?

Noun

austerity (countable and uncountable, plural austerities)

1. Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.
2. Freedom from adornment; plainness; severe simplicity.
3. (economics) A policy of deficit-cutting, which by definition requires lower spending, higher taxes, or both.
4. (obsolete) Sourness and harshness to the taste.

Antonyms

• (severity of manners or life): comfort

Related terms

• austere
• austerely
• austeriate

Translations

References

• austerity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English austerity.

Noun

austerity f (invariable)

1. austerity