TIGHTFISTEDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tightfistedness mean? 

• TIGHTFISTEDNESS (noun)
  The noun TIGHTFISTEDNESS has 1 sense:

1. extreme stinginess

  Familiarity information: TIGHTFISTEDNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIGHTFISTEDNESS (noun)

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 ("tightfistedness" 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 "tightfistedness"):

littleness; pettiness; smallness (lack of generosity in trifling matters)

miserliness (total lack of generosity with money)

Derivation:

tightfisted (unwilling to part with money)