niggardliness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
niggardliness
    n 1: extreme stinginess [syn: {meanness}, {minginess},
         {niggardliness}, {niggardness}, {parsimony},
         {parsimoniousness}, {tightness}, {tightfistedness},
         {closeness}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Niggardliness \Nig"gard*li*ness\ (n[i^]g"g[~e]rd*l[i^]*n[e^]s),
   n.
   The quality or state of being niggard; meanness in giving or
   spending; parsimony; stinginess.
   [1913 Webster]

         Niggardliness is not good husbandry.     --Addison.
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