stinginess

English

Etymology

From stingy +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

stinginess (usually uncountable, plural stinginesses)

1. The property of being stingy: a lack of generosity; excessive parsimony.

   Coordinate terms: (appropriate parsimony) frugality, thrift, thriftiness

   Near-synonyms: cheapness, tightness, miserliness

Translations

lack of generosity

• Arabic: بُخْل m (buḵl)

  Gulf Arabic: بخل (buḵil)

• Azerbaijani: simiclik
• Breton: tostoni (br) f
• Czech: lakota f, skoupost f, škudlivost f, skrblictví n
• Dutch: gierigheid (nl) f, vrekkigheid f, inhaligheid (nl) f, schraperigheid f
• Faroese: gírni f
• Finnish: kitsaus (fi), itaruus (fi), saituus (fi), pihiys, nuukuus (fi)
• French: radinerie (fr) f, pingrerie (fr) f, avarice (fr) f
• Georgian: ხელმოჭერილობა (xelmoč̣eriloba), სიძუნწე (siʒunc̣e)
• German: Geiz (de) m, Knauserei (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: φειδωλία f (pheidōlía), μικρολογία f (mikrología)

• Irish: péisteánacht f, cinnteacht f, cruacht f, ceacharthacht f, sprionlaitheacht f, gortaíl f, cruáil f, cruálacht f, cruas m, caillteacht f, gannchúis f, stinsireacht f, neoid f (literary)
• Italian: taccagneria (it) f, tirchieria (it) f, avarizia (it) f, grettezza (it) f, pitoccheria f, spilorceria f
• Latin: avāritia f
• Norwegian: gjerrighet (no)
• Persian: تَنگ‌چَشمِی, لِئامَت, خَست, کِنِسِی (kinisī)
• Polish: skąpość f
• Romanian: avariție (ro) f, zgârcenie (ro) f, parcimonie (ro) f
• Russian: жа́дность (ru) f (žádnostʹ), ску́пость (ru) f (skúpostʹ)
• Slovene: skopušnost f
• Spanish: tacañería
• Tagalog: kakulpitan, kakuriputan
• Turkish: cimrilik (tr)

See also

• aporophobia, peniaphobia (fear or loathing of poverty sometimes motivate stinginess)
• avarice, greed, cruelty (other factors that sometimes motivate stinginess)
• Thesaurus:stingy, Thesaurus:frugal