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Definition: Stinginess |
StinginessNoun1. A lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stinginess" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
Synonyms: StinginessSynonyms: Closeness, Parsimony. (additional references) |
| Antonym: generosity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Parsimony | Noun: parsimony, parcity; parsimoniousness, stinginess; Adjective: stint; illiberality, tenacity. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Stinginess |
| English words defined with "stinginess": closeness ♦ meanness, minginess ♦ parsimoniousness, parsimony ♦ selfishness ♦ tightfistedness, tightness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "stinginess": Losing a Ship for a Haporth o' Tar. (references) |
| "Stinginess" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stinginess" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "stinginess"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | koprraci (avarice, cheese paring, closeness, meanness, miserliness, money-grubbing, parsimony, rapacity). (various references) | |
Arabic | شح (cheeseparing, littleness, miserliness, parsimony), بخل (avarice, littleness, meanness, miserliness, scant, scrimp, skimp, spare, stint). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скъперничество (avarice, miserliness). (various references) | |
Chinese | 门. (various references) | |
Czech | skoupost, lakomost. (various references) | |
Dutch | schraperigheid (avarice, miserliness), vrekkigheid (avarice, miserliness), inhaligheid (avarice, miserliness), gierigheid (avarice, miserliness). (various references) | |
Esperanto | avareco (avarice, miserliness). (various references) | |
Finnish | saituus (miserliness), kitsastelu, itaruus. (various references) | |
French | avarice. (various references) | |
Frisian | gjirrigens (avarice, miserliness), deunens (avarice, miserliness). (various references) | |
German | Geiz (avarice, avarices, costiveness, meanness, miserliness, parsimony, penuriousness, tightness). (various references) | |
Greek | φιλαργυρία (avarice, parsimony, penuriousness, sordidness), τσιγγουνιά (scrimpiness, ungainliness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קמצ ות (meanness, miserliness, parsimony), ציק ות (avarice, miserliness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szúrósság, csípõsség (acrimony, causticity, mordacity, piquancy, smartness). (various references) | |
Italian | spilorceria (scantiness), tirchieria (churlishness), taccagneria (meanness). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 物惜しみ , 悋嗇 (miser, miserliness, pinching pennies, skinflint, tightwad), 吝嗇 (miser, miserliness, pinching pennies, skinflint, tightwad), 吝ち" , 一文惜しみ (miserliness), 一文惜み (miser). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いちも"おしみ (miser, miserliness), り"しょく (miser, miserliness, pinching pennies, skinflint, tightwad), ものおしみ, けち", けち (miser, miserliness, pinching pennies, skinflint, tightwad). (various references) | |
Korean | 인색. (various references) | |
Manx | gortaght (close-fistedness, closeness, frugality, injuriousness, rancidity, rankness, skimpiness), cribbidjys (close-fistedness, parsimony). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inginessstay.(various references) | |
Romanian | zgârcenie (avarice, cheese paring, closeness, costiveness, covetousness, miserabliness, parsimony, skimp), lipsã (absence, blemish, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, demerit, destitution, drawback, failure, fault, gap, hardship, imperfection, lack, minus, mistake, necessity, neediness, out, paucity, penury, poverty, privation, scantiness, scarceness, shortage, shortcoming, stringency, vice, want), cãrpãnoşie, avariţie (avarice, miserabliness). (various references) | |
Russian | скупость (cheese paring, closeness, miserliness, parsimony, penuriousness, scrimpiness, skimpiness), скаредность (cupidity, miserliness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tvrdičluk (miserliness), škrtost (avarice, miserliness, parsimony, penurity, scantiness). (various references) | |
Spanish | tacañería (meanness, miserliness, skimpiness, tightness). (various references) | |
Swedish | snålhet (chariness, scantiness). (various references) | |
Turkish | pintilik (costiveness, parsimony), hasislik (meanness, rapaciousness, rapacity), cimrilik (closeness, costiveness, illiberality, manginess, meanness, miserliness, nearness, parsimony, penury, sordidness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính keo kiệt (miseriliness, nearness, scrimpiness, sordidness), tính bủn xỉn (churlishness, closeness, costiveness, miseriliness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, scrimpiness, skimpiness). (various references) | |
Welsh | crintachrwydd. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | avaritia, avaritiae, avaritiam, avarities, sordes. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stinginess": stinginesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stinginess" (pronounced sti"njēnus) |
| 5 | -j ē n u s | edginess. |
| 4 | -ē n u s | airworthiness, arbitrariness, bagginess, cleanliness, cloudiness, clumsiness, cockiness, contrariness, coziness, craziness, creditworthiness, creepiness, deadliness, dizziness, dreariness, drowsiness, emptiness, friendliness, frothiness, funniness, ghastliness, hairiness, happiness, holiness, laziness, liveliness, loneliness, lousiness, nastiness, nosiness, orderliness, pettiness, queasiness, raciness, readiness, riskiness, roominess, rowdiness, scantiness, shakiness, silliness, sleepiness, sloppiness, slovenliness, solitariness, steadiness, sturdiness, tardiness, tastiness, timeliness, trustworthiness, ugliness, uneasiness, unhappiness, unwieldiness, wariness, weariness, wimpiness, worldliness, worthiness. |
| 3 | -n u s | abruptness, absoluteness, acuteness, aggressiveness, agribusiness, alertness, aloofness, alumnus, Anas, androgynous, anise, appropriateness, assertiveness, astuteness, asynchronous, attentiveness, attractiveness, awareness, awfulness, awkwardness, backwardness, badness, baldness, bearishness, bigness, bitterness, bituminous, blackness, blandness, bleakness, blindness, bluntness, boldness, bonus, boorishness, brashness, brightness, bullishness, business, callousness, calmness, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, cavernous, cheapness, chitinous, cleanness, cleverness, closeness, cohesiveness, coldness, Colonus, combativeness, compactness, competitiveness, completeness, consciousness, contagiousness, contentiousness, Conus, coolness, correctness, creativeness, crispness, crookedness, cuteness, dampness, darkness, Deaconess, deafness, decisiveness, defensiveness, destructiveness, directness, disingenuousness, distinctiveness, divisiveness, drunkenness, dryness, dullness, eagerness, earnestness, effectiveness, elusiveness, evenness, exogenous, eyewitness, faintness, fairness, farsightedness, fastness, fickleness, firmness, fitness, flatness, fondness, foolishness, forcefulness, forgiveness, forthrightness, foulness, fractiousness, frankness, freshness, fullness, furnace, gauntness, gayness, gelatinous, gentleness, genuineness, genus, gluttonous, goodness, governess, graciousness, greatness, greenness, grimness, handedness, hardness, harmfulness, harness, harshness, heinous, helplessness, highness, hoarseness, homelessness, homesickness, homogenous, hopefulness, hopelessness, humanness, idleness, illness, inclusiveness, indebtedness, indecisiveness, indigenous, ineffectiveness, ineptness, inertness, intravenous, intrusiveness, inventiveness, joblessness, Johannes, kindness, larcenous, largeness, lateness, lawlessness, lenis, lightfastness, lightness, likeness, luminous, madness, Manus, meanness, membranous, menace, Minas, mindedness, minus, monotonous, mountainous, mutinous, narrowness, nearsightedness, neatness, nervousness, newness, niceness, nitrogenous, nonbusiness, nonpoisonous, nothingness, numbness, ominous, oneness, onus, openness, otherness, outrageousness, outspokenness, pandanus, peacefulness, penis, permissiveness, persuasiveness, pervasiveness, playfulness, poisonous, politeness, polygynous, pompousness, possessiveness, powerlessness, preparedness, quickness, quietness, randomness, rareness, ravenous, rawness, reasonableness, rebelliousness, recklessness, redness, remoteness, resistiveness, resourcefulness, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness, restrictiveness, richness, righteousness, rightness, robustness, roughness, rudeness, ruinous, ruthlessness, sacredness, sadness, Salinas, sameness, secretiveness, selfishness, selflessness, sensitiveness, separateness, seriousness, shallowness, sharpness, shortness, shortsightedness, shrewdness, shyness, sickness, sinus, skittishness, slackness, slowness, sluggishness, slyness, smallness, smoothness, smugness, softness, soundness, spiritedness, squeamishness, starkness, steadfastness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stoutness, strangeness, stubbornness, suddenness, suggestiveness, sweetness, swiftness, tartness, tenderness, tetanus, thickness, thinness, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, tightness, tiredness, togetherness, toughness, truthfulness, unconsciousness, unfairness, uniqueness, unpleasantness, unwillingness, usefulness, vagueness, vastness, venous, viciousness, villainous, vindictiveness, vividness, voluminous, wastefulness, waterishness, weakness, weightlessness, weirdness, wellness, wetness, whiteness, wholeness, wholesomeness, wickedness, wilderness, wildness, willingness, wistfulness, witness, wonderfulness, wryness. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-n-n-s-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: ginniest, seisings, tininess. | |
-3 letters: ensigns, ignites, ingests, insigne, insists, intines, nesting, seining, seising, seisins, sennits, sensing, signets, tensing. | |
-4 letters: ensign, gneiss, ignite, ingest, insets, insist, intine, isseis, niseis, seisin, seniti, sennit, signet, singes, siting, steins, stings, tennis, tieing, tinges, tining. | |
-5 letters: genii, gents, gests, gists, inset, intis, issei, neist, nests, nines, nisei, nites, segni. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-i-n-n-s-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: sensitising, stringiness. | |
+2 letters: stinginesses. | |
+3 letters: fittingnesses, liltingnesses, stringinesses, unsightliness. | |
+4 letters: introgressions, knightlinesses, retiringnesses, thinkingnesses. | |
+5 letters: interestingness, intussuscepting, unsightlinesses. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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