savingness en · NOUN
Etymology
From saving + -ness.
Meanings
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(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:
- (uncountable) Tendency to promote religious salvation.