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noun, feminine

austérité

/ɔs.te.ʁi.te/

noun, feminine/ɔs.te.ʁi.te/plural: austérités

austerity, severity, rigidity; destitution; deficit cutting

politique d'austéritépolicy of deficit-cutting

Learned borrowing from Latin austēritās. By surface analysis, austère + -ité.