niggardliness
Reluctance to spend
Niggardliness is the quality of being niggardly—stinginess, miserliness, reluctance to give: His niggardliness with compliments discouraged his employees.
Though etymologically unrelated to the racial slur, the word's sound has made it radioactive.
Most modern writers avoid it entirely, choosing stinginess, parsimony, or miserliness instead.
Excessive reluctance to spend
- tightfistednessExtreme reluctance to spend
- cheapnessLow price quality
- penny-pinchingExtreme reluctance to spend
- meannessSpiteful, unkind disposition
grudging · skimping · stinting · withholding · hoarding · pinching · scrimping · cheeseparing
Careful use of resources
- parsimonyExcessive frugality with resources
- economySystem of trade and production
- prudenceCareful, wise judgment
- husbandryFarm management practice
conservation · providence · abstemiousness · retrenchment · sparingness · carefulness · budgeting · savings
stinginess
Excessive reluctance to spend
- tightfistednessExtreme reluctance to spend
- cheapnessLow price quality
- penny-pinchingExtreme reluctance to spend
meanness · grudging · skimping · stinting · withholding · hoarding · pinching · scrimping · cheeseparing · pettiness
thrift
Careful use of resources
- parsimonyExcessive frugality with resources
- economySystem of trade and production
- prudenceCareful, wise judgment
husbandry · conservation · providence · abstemiousness · retrenchment · sparingness · carefulness · budgeting · savings · moderation
- stinginessstinginess, miserliness, miserly, penny-pinching, stingy
niggardlinessgenerosity
Readiness to give freely
liberality · openhandedness · munificence · largesse · bountifulness