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savingness en · NOUN

Etymology

From saving + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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. (uncountable) Tendency to promote religious salvation.