penuriousness
Miserly hoarding tendency
Penuriousness is extreme stinginess or unwillingness to spend money.
The word suggests miserliness beyond mere frugality—a tight-fistedness that borders on deprivation: His penuriousness meant the children never had new clothes.
Less commonly, penuriousness can describe severe poverty itself, though the stingy sense predominates.
Extreme poverty, lacking necessities
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
- impoverishmentState of extreme deprivation
- privationLack of necessities
- hardshipSuffering from difficult circumstances
want · neediness · squalor · homelessness · beggary · insolvency · bankruptcy · subsistence
Careful use of resources
- economizingReducing expenditures deliberately
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- parsimonyExcessive frugality with resources
- savingReserving for future use
prudence · conservation · moderation · simplicity · minimalism · resourcefulness · restraint · temperance
Excessive reluctance to spend
- tightfistednessExtreme reluctance to spend
- cheapnessLow price quality
- niggardlinessExcessive reluctance to give
- penny-pinchingExtreme reluctance to spend
grudging · ungenerous · hoarding · skimping · meanness · selfishness · pettiness · pinching
destitution
Extreme poverty, lacking necessities
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
- impoverishmentState of extreme deprivation
- privationLack of necessities
hardship · want · neediness · squalor · homelessness · beggary · insolvency · bankruptcy · subsistence · hand-to-mouth
thrift
Careful use of resources
- economizingReducing expenditures deliberately
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- parsimonyExcessive frugality with resources
saving · prudence · conservation · moderation · simplicity · minimalism · resourcefulness · restraint · temperance · husbandry
miserliness
Excessive reluctance to spend
- tightfistednessExtreme reluctance to spend
- cheapnessLow price quality
- niggardlinessExcessive reluctance to give
penny-pinching · grudging · ungenerous · hoarding · skimping · meanness · selfishness · pettiness · pinching · covetousness
- stinginessstinginess, miserliness, miserly, penny-pinching, stingy
penuriousnesswealth
Abundance of valuable resources
affluence · richness · opulence · wealthiness · prosperity
penuriousnessgenerosity
Readiness to give freely
liberality · openhandedness · munificence · bountifulness · largesse
penury, impoverished, impecunious, penurious, pecuniary, pauperism, pauperized, impecuniousness, pauperize