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NIGGARDLINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does niggardliness mean?
• NIGGARDLINESS (noun)
The noun NIGGARDLINESS has 1 sense:
1. extreme stinginess
Familiarity information: NIGGARDLINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extreme stinginess
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
closeness; meanness; minginess; niggardliness; niggardness; parsimoniousness; parsimony; tightfistedness; tightness
Hypernyms ("niggardliness" is a kind of...):
stinginess (a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "niggardliness"):
littleness; pettiness; smallness (lack of generosity in trifling matters)
miserliness (total lack of generosity with money)
Derivation:
niggardly (petty or reluctant in giving or spending)
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