"thriftiness" meaning in English

See thriftiness in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: thriftinesses [plural]
Etymology: From thrifty + -ness. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|thrifty|ness}} thrifty + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} thriftiness (usually uncountable, plural thriftinesses)
  1. The property of being thrifty. Tags: uncountable, usually Synonyms: frugality, parsimony Translations (the property of being thrifty): φειδωλία (pheidōlía) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), saituus (Finnish), hirða [feminine] (Icelandic), baileachas [masculine] (Irish), bainistíocht [feminine] (Irish), críonnacht [feminine] (Irish), tíosaíocht [feminine] (Irish), parsimonia [feminine] (Italian), үнем (ünem) (Kazakh), parsimōnia [feminine] (Latin), ште́дливост (štédlivost) [feminine] (Macedonian), frioose [masculine] (Manx)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "thrifty",
        "3": "ness"
      },
      "expansion": "thrifty + -ness",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From thrifty + -ness.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "thriftinesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "thriftiness (usually uncountable, plural thriftinesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ness",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Icelandic translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Irish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Italian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Kazakh translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Latin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Macedonian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Manx translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The property of being thrifty."
      ],
      "id": "en-thriftiness-en-noun-HSFJ0kX7",
      "links": [
        [
          "thrifty",
          "thrifty"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "frugality"
        },
        {
          "word": "parsimony"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "the property of being thrifty",
          "word": "saituus"
        },
        {
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "pheidōlía",
          "sense": "the property of being thrifty",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "φειδωλία"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "the property of being thrifty",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "hirða"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "the property of being thrifty",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "baileachas"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "the property of being thrifty",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "bainistíocht"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "the property of being thrifty",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "críonnacht"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "the property of being thrifty",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "tíosaíocht"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "the property of being thrifty",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "parsimonia"
        },
        {
          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "ünem",
          "sense": "the property of being thrifty",
          "word": "үнем"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "the property of being thrifty",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "parsimōnia"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "štédlivost",
          "sense": "the property of being thrifty",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ште́дливост"
        },
        {
          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "sense": "the property of being thrifty",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "frioose"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "thriftiness"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "thrifty",
        "3": "ness"
      },
      "expansion": "thrifty + -ness",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From thrifty + -ness.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "thriftinesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "thriftiness (usually uncountable, plural thriftinesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ness",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with Icelandic translations",
        "Terms with Irish translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Kazakh translations",
        "Terms with Latin translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Manx translations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The property of being thrifty."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "thrifty",
          "thrifty"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "frugality"
    },
    {
      "word": "parsimony"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the property of being thrifty",
      "word": "saituus"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "pheidōlía",
      "sense": "the property of being thrifty",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "φειδωλία"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "the property of being thrifty",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hirða"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "the property of being thrifty",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "baileachas"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "the property of being thrifty",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bainistíocht"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "the property of being thrifty",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "críonnacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "the property of being thrifty",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tíosaíocht"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "the property of being thrifty",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "parsimonia"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "ünem",
      "sense": "the property of being thrifty",
      "word": "үнем"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "the property of being thrifty",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "parsimōnia"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "štédlivost",
      "sense": "the property of being thrifty",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ште́дливост"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "the property of being thrifty",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "frioose"
    }
  ],
  "word": "thriftiness"
}

Download raw JSONL data for thriftiness meaning in English (2.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.