miserliness

From miserly + -ness.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪzə(ɹ)linəs/

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miserliness (usually uncountable, plural miserlinesses)

1. The property of being miserly: excessive parsimony.

   Coordinate terms: (appropriate parsimony) frugality, thrift, thriftiness

   Near-synonyms: stinginess, cheapness, tightness

   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 195:

     Even his amazing miserliness was passed over acceptedly, for of such are the kingdom of shepherd millionaires.

   • 1956, W. John Morgan, The Small World, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, page 114:

     There were enough people in the room who wouldn’t mind seeing Beaufort-Holmes hurt to make the chorus a full and, to the uninitiated ear, good-humoured one. His colleagues wouldn’t mind because of his faith that he was a don, they lecturers or worse, and because of remembered miserlinesses.