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stinginess
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
stinginess (usually uncountable, plural stinginesses)
- The property of being stingy: a lack of generosity; excessive parsimony.
- Coordinate terms: (appropriate parsimony) frugality, thrift, thriftiness
- Near-synonyms: cheapness, tightness, miserliness
Translations
lack of generosity
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See also
- aporophobia, peniaphobia (fear or loathing of poverty sometimes motivate stinginess)
- avarice, greed, cruelty (other factors that sometimes motivate stinginess)
- Thesaurus:stingy, Thesaurus:frugal
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