Niggardliness

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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