Definition for Stinginess:

• The quality of being stingy.

Synonyms for Stinginess:

• n.

  •attribute (noun)
  • stinginess.
  •avarice (noun)
  • frugality,
  • cupidity,
  • avidity,
  • covetousness,
  • penny- pinching,
  • thrift,
  • parsimony,
  • rapacity,
  • penuriousness.
  •cheapness (noun)
  • reasonableness.
  •closeness (noun)
  • propinquity,
  • intimacy,
  • compactness,
  • density,
  • strictness,
  • secretiveness,
  • proximity,
  • secrecy,
  • reticence.
  •economy (noun)
  • prudence,
  • caution,
  • thriftiness,
  • restraint,
  • sparingness,
  • providence,
  • care,
  • shrinkage,
  • Skimping,
  • Parcity,
  • austerity,
  • layoff,
  • regulation,
  • reduction,
  • Scrimping,
  • deduction,
  • direction,
  • abridgement,
  • husbandry,
  • moderation,
  • cheapness,
  • moratorium,
  • recession,
  • self-denial,
  • carefulness,
  • cutback,
  • retrenchment,
  • supervision,
  • discretion,
  • decrease,
  • curtailment,
  • moderateness,
  • rollback.
  •frugality (noun)
  • avariciousness,
  • saving,
  • conservation.
  •self-regard (noun)
  • selfishness.
  •selfishness (noun)
  • self-centeredness,
  • self-worship,
  • self-indulgence.
  •stinginess (noun)
  • abstemiousness,
  • meagerness,
  • pettiness,
  • tightness.
  •thrift (noun)
  • Economizing.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • abjection,
  • adjacency,
  • avarice,
  • beastliness,
  • economy,
  • greediness,
  • ill temper,
  • illiberality,
  • lowness,
  • meanness,
  • miserliness,
  • niggardliness,
  • parsimoniousness,
  • shamelessness,
  • sordidness,
  • unkindness,
  • unscrupulousness,
  • unworthiness,
  • Churlishness,
  • KNavishness,
  • Contemptibleness,
  • adjacencies,
  • illiberalities,
  • forehandedness,
  • grabbiness,
  • close-fistedness,
  • closefistedness,
  • good management,
  • ill-temper,
  • pennypinching,
  • smallmindedness.

Antonyms for Stinginess:

• n.

  • attribute
    generosity.
  • avarice
    philanthropy.
  • closeness
    openness.
  • economy
    extravagance, carelessness, enlargement, spending, raise, disregard, negligence, increase, expansion, squandering, neglect, imprudence, thoughtlessness, indiscretion, addition.
  • frugality
    wastefulness, lavishness.
  • meanness
    honor, benevolence, virtue, worthiness, goodness, morality, nobility.
  • thrift
    waste.
  • Other antonyms:
    improvidence, bounty, dissipation, liberality, openheartedness, largesse, openhandedness, unselfishness, prodigality, generousness, bountifulness.

Stinginess Sentence Examples:

• Every one knows that it is only stinginess on General Boldero's part which stands in the way of his daughters' hunting.

• What did Cyrus Treadwell's stinginess matter when his only relation to life consisted in his being the uncle of Oliver?

Homophones for Stinginess:

• stinking yew, St. Thomas Aquinas, staunchness, stinking, stinging, stinkiness, sweating sickness, section gang.

Hypernym for Stinginess:

• n.

  • attribute
    niggardliness, tightness, selfishness, meanness, minginess, parsimoniousness, closeness, parsimony, penuriousness, tightfistedness, Niggardness, illiberality.

Hyponym for Stinginess:

• n.

  • attribute
    trait.