parsimoniousness
Reluctance spending money
Parsimoniousness is extreme reluctance to spend money or use resources—stinginess taken to an almost comical degree.
The word is unwieldy by design, stretching *parsimonious* into something that sounds as excessive as the trait it describes: His parsimoniousness extended to reusing dental floss.
The simpler *parsimony* usually suffices.
Excessive reluctance to spend
- tightfistednessExtreme reluctance to spend
- cheapnessLow price quality
- niggardlinessExcessive reluctance to give
- penuryExtreme lack of money
grudging · ungenerous · meanness · hoarding · grasping · pinching · close-fisted · chintzy
Careful use of resources
- prudenceCareful, wise judgment
- economizingReducing expenditures deliberately
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- savingsAccumulated money kept
conservation · resourcefulness · moderation · restraint · self-discipline · judicious · measured · careful
Severe self-denial practice
- abstemiousnessHabitual moderation in consumption
- spartanRigorously simple, unadorned
- self-denialRestraining one's own desires
- minimalismAesthetic of reduction
severity · plainness · strictness · sobriety · temperance · bare-bones · monastic · abstinence
miserliness
Excessive reluctance to spend
- tightfistednessExtreme reluctance to spend
- cheapnessLow price quality
- niggardlinessExcessive reluctance to give
penury · grudging · ungenerous · meanness · hoarding · grasping · pinching · close-fisted · chintzy · skimping
thrift
Careful use of resources
- prudenceCareful, wise judgment
- economizingReducing expenditures deliberately
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
savings · conservation · resourcefulness · moderation · restraint · self-discipline · judicious · measured · careful · scrimping
asceticism
Severe self-denial practice
- abstemiousnessHabitual moderation in consumption
- spartanRigorously simple, unadorned
- self-denialRestraining one's own desires
minimalism · severity · plainness · strictness · sobriety · temperance · bare-bones · monastic · abstinence · renunciation
parsimoniousnessgenerosity
Readiness to give freely
lavishness · extravagance · profligacy · prodigality · liberality
parsimoniousnessgenerousness
Readiness to give
generosity · liberality · benevolence · magnanimity · charitableness
sparse, sparing, sparingly, parsimonious, parsimony, sparsely, sparsity, sparer, sparingness