English
Etymology
From stingy + -ness.
Pronunciation
Noun
stinginess (usually uncountable, plural stinginesses)
- The property of being stingy: a lack of generosity; excessive parsimony.
- Coordinate terms: (appropriate parsimony) frugality, thrift, thriftiness
- Near-synonyms: cheapness, tightness, miserliness
Translations
lack of generosity
- Arabic: بُخْل m (buḵl)
- Gulf Arabic: بخل (buḵil)
- Azerbaijani: simiclik
- Breton: tostoni (br) f
- Czech: lakota f, skoupost f, škudlivost f, skrblictví n
- Dutch: gierigheid (nl) f, vrekkigheid f, inhaligheid (nl) f, schraperigheid f
- Faroese: gírni f
- Finnish: kitsaus (fi), itaruus (fi), saituus (fi), pihiys, nuukuus (fi)
- French: radinerie (fr) f, pingrerie (fr) f, avarice (fr) f
- Georgian: ხელმოჭერილობა (xelmoč̣eriloba), სიძუნწე (siʒunc̣e)
- German: Geiz (de) m, Knauserei (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient: φειδωλία f (pheidōlía), μικρολογία f (mikrología)
- Irish: péisteánacht f, cinnteacht f, cruacht f, ceacharthacht f, sprionlaitheacht f, gortaíl f, cruáil f, cruálacht f, cruas m, caillteacht f, gannchúis f, stinsireacht f, neoid f (literary)
- Italian: taccagneria (it) f, tirchieria (it) f, avarizia (it) f, grettezza (it) f, pitoccheria f, spilorceria f
- Latin: avāritia f
- Norwegian: gjerrighet (no)
- Persian: تَنگچَشمِی, لِئامَت, خَست, کِنِسِی (kinisī)
- Polish: skąpość f
- Romanian: avariție (ro) f, zgârcenie (ro) f, parcimonie (ro) f
- Russian: жа́дность (ru) f (žádnostʹ), ску́пость (ru) f (skúpostʹ)
- Slovene: skopušnost f
- Spanish: tacañería
- Tagalog: kakulpitan, kakuriputan
- Turkish: cimrilik (tr)
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