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NIGGARDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does niggardness mean? 

NIGGARDNESS (noun)
  The noun NIGGARDNESS has 1 sense:

1. extreme stinginessplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


NIGGARDNESS (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 ("niggardness" 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 "niggardness"):

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

miserliness (total lack of generosity with money)


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