Synonyms for miserliness
Most common
greed tightness frugality avarice cheapness stinginess penuriousness
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Noun
Definitions
- n. 1
The property of being miserly: excessive parsimony.
Near-synonyms: stinginess, cheapness, tightness
Forms
- Plural
- miserlinesses → greeds, tightnesses, frugalities, avarices…
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Miserliness is the denying oneself and others the ordinary comforts or even necessaries of life, for the mere sake of hoarding money.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- greed The earth can satisfy our needs but not our greed.
- tightness I felt an uncomfortable tightness in my chest.
- frugality Frugality with diligence builds houses like castles.
- avarice Young men are apt to fall a victim to their own avarice.
- cheapness If the reason to buy is its cheapness, I won't buy it.
- stinginess There's a big difference between frugality and stinginess.
By length
- 5 letters
- greed1
- 7 letters
- avarice3
- 9 letters
- tightness2, frugality4, cheapness2, parsimony4
- 10 letters
- stinginess3
- 13 letters
- penuriousness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (avarice3 = 3 syllables).