Definition: niggardliness

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

niggardliness
     n : extreme stinginess [syn: meanness, minginess, niggardness,
          parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness,
          closeness]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Niggardliness \Nig"gard*li*ness\, n.
   The quality or state of being niggard; meanness in giving or
   spending; parsimony; stinginess.

         Niggardliness is not good husbandry.     --Addison.