stinginessn.
/ˈstɪndʒɪnɪs/ The quality of being stingy; niggardliness, meanness.
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun]
fastship?c1225
scarcenessa1300
scarcity1340
niggardyc1390
nithingheada1400
scarcehead1420
nigonryc1430
niggardship?a1439
pinching1440
straitheadc1450
straitnessc1460
niggard cheap1463
niggardnessc1487
nigonshipa1500
niggardise1502
niggishness1519
niggardliness1556
parsimony1561
illiberality1581
nearness1584
tenacity1586
Euclionism1599
paring1607
servilitya1610
niggeralitya1612
scanting1625
scant-handednessa1627
closefistedness1631
niggardess1632
close-handedness1646
strait-handedness1649
penury1651
unbountifulness1660
parsimoniousness1671
penuriousness1672
stinginess1682
closeness1712
illiberalness1727
meanness1755
cheeseparing1834
scrimping1835
churlishness1846
screwing1848
skinflintism1853
screwiness1856
flint-paring1860
skinflintiness1861
scrimp1864
flint-skinning1873
penny-pinching1895
skimping1898
tight-fistedness1975
1682 J. Norris tr. Hierocles Golden Verses 100 In expence of Money, Profusion and Stinginess.
1700–5 in J. Noake Monastery & Cathedral Worcester (1866) 611 Good wine, poor soules, is so above 'em, Their stingienes won't that allow 'em.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xix. 155 The stinginess of her father, who refused to part with a shilling as long as he should live.
1876 Creighton Age of Elizabeth iv. i. 124 Elizabeth..learnt an economy which soon became habitual to her and degenerated into stinginess.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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