ungenerosity
Reluctance to give
Ungenerosity is a lack of generosity—stinginess with money, resources, or spirit.
The word covers both material tightness and meanness of attitude: His ungenerosity with praise made employees feel undervalued.
It's a formal alternative to words like cheapness or stinginess, often appearing in contexts where the failure to give feels like a moral shortcoming rather than mere frugality.
Excessive reluctance to spend
- parsimonyExcessive frugality with resources
- tightfistednessExtreme reluctance to spend
- penny-pinchingExtreme reluctance to spend
- cheapnessLow price quality
niggardliness · penuriousness · grudging · scrimping · hoarding · withholding · uncharitableness · meanness
Hostile to guests
- unfriendlinessUnwelcoming disposition toward others
- ungraciousImpolite, especially when thanked
- stintingRestricting supply grudgingly
- unaccommodatingUnwilling to help others
unhelpfulness · begrudging · churlishness · discourtesy · coldness · aloofness · standoffishness · exclusion
Preoccupation with one's own interests
- self-interestConcern for personal advantage
- egotismInflated sense of self-importance
- narcissismExcessive admiration of oneself
- self-absorptionPreoccupation with oneself
me-first · taking · unsharing · possessiveness · greed · entitlement · solipsism · self-serving
Lack of compassion
- indifferenceLack of interest
- insensitivityLack of emotional awareness
- callousnessCruel emotional indifference
- hardheartednessAbsence of pity
unfeelingness · uncompassionate · unsympathetic · uncharitable · dismissiveness · disregard · uncaring · heartlessness
miserliness
Excessive reluctance to spend
- parsimonyExcessive frugality with resources
- tightfistednessExtreme reluctance to spend
- penny-pinchingExtreme reluctance to spend
cheapness · niggardliness · penuriousness · grudging · scrimping · hoarding · withholding · uncharitableness · meanness · skinflint
unwelcoming
Hostile to guests
- unfriendlinessUnwelcoming disposition toward others
- ungraciousImpolite, especially when thanked
- stintingRestricting supply grudgingly
unaccommodating · unhelpfulness · begrudging · churlishness · discourtesy · coldness · aloofness · standoffishness · exclusion · snubbing
self-centeredness
Preoccupation with one's own interests
- self-interestConcern for personal advantage
- egotismInflated sense of self-importance
- narcissismExcessive admiration of oneself
self-absorption · me-first · taking · unsharing · possessiveness · greed · entitlement · solipsism · self-serving · inconsiderateness
unkindness
Lack of compassion
- indifferenceLack of interest
- insensitivityLack of emotional awareness
- callousnessCruel emotional indifference
hardheartedness · unfeelingness · uncompassionate · unsympathetic · uncharitable · dismissiveness · disregard · uncaring · heartlessness · stoniness
ungenerositygenerosity
Readiness to give freely
liberality · bounty · generousness · munificence · open-handedness
ungenerosityopenheartedness
Warm, unreserved emotional honesty
warm-heartedness · big-heartedness · kindheartedness · magnanimity · benevolence