tightfistedness
Reluctance to spend
Tightfistedness is extreme reluctance to spend money—the quality of being a tightwad.
The image is of a fist clenched so tightly around coins that nothing escapes: His tightfistedness was legendary; he reused paper towels.
The word carries more judgment than "frugality," implying stinginess beyond what circumstances require.
Excessively frugal person
- scroogeMiserly, stingy person
- cheapskateStingy person
- tightwadStingy person, slang
- skinflintStingy person
miser · hoarder · pinchpenny · niggard · closefisted · mean · ungenerous · stingy
Careful use of resources
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- savingsAccumulated money kept
- prudenceCareful, wise judgment
- economizingReducing expenditures deliberately
parsimony · sparingness · carefulness · self-discipline · moderation · restraint · conservation · providence
penny-pincher
Excessively frugal person
- scroogeMiserly, stingy person
- cheapskateStingy person
- tightwadStingy person, slang
skinflint · miser · hoarder · pinchpenny · niggard · closefisted · mean · ungenerous · stingy · grudging
thrift
Careful use of resources
economizing · parsimony · sparingness · carefulness · self-discipline · moderation · restraint · conservation · providence · abstemiousness
- stinginessstinginess, miserliness, miserly, penny-pinching, stingy
tightfistednessgenerosity
Readiness to give freely
open-handedness · liberality · lavishness · munificence · bountifulness
tightfistednessbenevolence
Disposition toward doing good
kindness · charitableness · magnanimity · philanthropy · altruism