miserliness
Hoarding every penny
Miserliness is extreme reluctance to spend money, even when circumstances call for it.
The word carries stronger disapproval than frugality or thrift—a miser hoards wealth at the expense of comfort, generosity, or basic decency: His miserliness extended to denying his children new shoes.
Excessive frugality with resources
- tightfistednessExtreme reluctance to spend
- penny-pinchingExtreme reluctance to spend
- niggardlinessExcessive reluctance to give
- cheapnessLow price quality
ungenerosity · meanness · cheeseparing · pinching · grudgingness · pettiness · scrimping · Scrooge
Excessive desire for riches
- covetousnessExcessive desire for possessions
- acquisitivenessDesire to gather wealth
- cupidityEager desire for riches
- rapacityAggressive, seizing greed
graspingness · money-grubbing · possessiveness · selfishness · materialism · insatiability · voracity · mercenary
Careful use of resources
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- economySystem of trade and production
- savingsAccumulated money kept
- prudenceCareful, wise judgment
conservation · moderation · austerity · simplicity · minimalism · sparing · restraint · self-discipline
Collected mass over time
- stockpilingAccumulating supplies in quantity
- amassingCollecting in quantity
- stashingConcealing for safekeeping
- squirrelingHiding away gradually
collecting · cache · hoard · treasure · packrat · clutter · piling · storing
parsimony
Excessive frugality with resources
- tightfistednessExtreme reluctance to spend
- penny-pinchingExtreme reluctance to spend
- niggardlinessExcessive reluctance to give
cheapness · ungenerosity · meanness · cheeseparing · pinching · grudgingness · pettiness · scrimping · Scrooge · tightwad
avarice
Excessive desire for riches
- covetousnessExcessive desire for possessions
- acquisitivenessDesire to gather wealth
- cupidityEager desire for riches
rapacity · graspingness · money-grubbing · possessiveness · selfishness · materialism · insatiability · voracity · mercenary · grasping
thrift
Careful use of resources
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- economySystem of trade and production
- savingsAccumulated money kept
prudence · conservation · moderation · austerity · simplicity · minimalism · sparing · restraint · self-discipline · cost-cutting
accumulation
Collected mass over time
- stockpilingAccumulating supplies in quantity
- amassingCollecting in quantity
- stashingConcealing for safekeeping
squirreling · collecting · cache · hoard · treasure · packrat · clutter · piling · storing · secreting
- greedgreed, avarice, covetousness, cupidity, materialism
- selfishnessselfishness, greed, egoism, narcissism, self-centeredness
- stinginessstinginess, penny-pinching, stingy, tightfistedness, cheapness
- money mindsetsfrugal, thrifty, generous, stingy, greedy
- bargainsbargain, bargain hunting, discount store, coupon, rebate
- saving moneybudget, savings, discount, sale, coupon
miserlinessgenerosity
Readiness to give freely
openhandedness · liberality · largesse · bountifulness · munificence
miserlinessextravagance
Excessive, wasteful spending
prodigality · wastefulness · lavishness · squandering · profligacy