niggardness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

niggardness
    n 1: extreme stinginess [syn: {meanness}, {minginess},
         {niggardliness}, {niggardness}, {parsimony},
         {parsimoniousness}, {tightness}, {tightfistedness},
         {closeness}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Niggardness \Nig"gard*ness\, n.
   Niggardliness. --Sir P. Sidney.
   [1913 Webster]

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