All niggardliness synonyms

noun niggardliness

• avidity — the quality or state of being avid
• covetousness — inordinately or wrongly desirous of wealth or possessions; greedy.
• cupidity — Cupidity is a greedy desire for money and possessions.
• frugality — the quality of being frugal, or prudent in saving; the lack of wastefulness: Many people who have lived through periods of economic deprivation develop lifelong habits of frugality and are almost never tempted by wasteful consumption.
• greediness — excessively or inordinately desirous of wealth, profit, etc.; avaricious: the greedy owners of the company.
• miserliness — of, like, or befitting a miser; penurious; stingy; niggardly.
• parsimony — extreme or excessive economy or frugality; stinginess; niggardliness.
• penurious — extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
• rapacity — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
• stinginess — reluctant to give or spend; not generous; niggardly; penurious: He's a stingy old miser.
• thrift — economical management; economy; frugality.
• grabbiness — The quality of being grabby; acquisitive greed.
• saving — tending or serving to save; rescuing; preserving.
• recession — a return of ownership to a former possessor.
• abridgement — a shortened or condensed form of a book, speech, etc., that still retains the basic contents: an abridgment of Tolstoy's War and Peace.
• austerity — Austerity is a situation in which people's living standards are reduced because of economic difficulties.
• care — If you care about something, you feel that it is important and are concerned about it.
• carefulness — cautious in one's actions: Be careful when you cross the street.
• caution — Caution is great care which you take in order to avoid possible danger.
• curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
• cutback — A cutback is a reduction that is made in something.
• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• deduction — A deduction is a conclusion that you have reached about something because of other things that you know to be true.
• direction — the act or an instance of directing.
• discretion — the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment; freedom of judgment or choice: It is entirely within my discretion whether I will go or stay.
• husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
• layoff — the act of dismissing employees, especially temporarily.
• meanness — the state or quality of being mean.
• moratorium — a suspension of activity: a moratorium on the testing of nuclear weapons.
• providence — a state of the NE United States, on the Atlantic coast: a part of New England. 1214 sq. mi. (3145 sq. km). Capital: Providence. Abbreviation: RI (for use with zip code), R.I.
• prudence — a female given name.
• reduction — the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
• regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
• restraint — a restraining action or influence: freedom from restraint.
• retrenchment — the act of retrenching; a cutting down or off, as by the reduction of expenses.
• rollback — an act or instance of rolling back.
• shrinkage — the act or fact of shrinking.
• supervision — the act or function of supervising; superintendence.
• thriftiness — practicing thrift or economical management; frugal: a thrifty shopper.
• sparing — kept in reserve, as for possible use: a spare part.
• economizing — to practice economy; avoid waste or extravagance.
• economising — to practice economy; avoid waste or extravagance.
• moderation — the quality of being moderate; restraint; avoidance of extremes or excesses; temperance.
• avarice — Avarice is extremely strong desire for money and possessions.
• avariciousness — The state or quality of being avaricious.
• conservation — Conservation is saving and protecting the environment.
• economy — thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.
• parsimonious — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
• forehandedness — Quality of being forehanded.
• selfishness — devoted to or caring only for oneself; concerned primarily with one's own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others.