Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.
A policy of deficit-cutting, which by definition requires lower spending, higher taxes, or both.
Freedom from adornment; plainness; severe simplicity.
Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.
stickiness (of prices/wages etc.). Describing the tendency of prices and money wages to adjust to changes in the economy with a certain delay.
The quality or state of being rigid; lack of pliability; the quality of resisting change of physical shape
The amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form.