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Stinginess

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A lack of generosity.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality or state of being stingy.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The state or quality of being stingy; extreme avarice; niggardliness; miserliness.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money

Word Usage

"Yet Congress's stinginess is being compounded by the administration's recent decision to reject a request from New York and several other states to increase food stamp outlays to the poor as fuel bills mount."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

trait

Hyponym

parsimony closeness illiberality minginess meanness

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

penuriousness hard-heartedness miserliness illiberality perfidiousness