miserliness

N ความตระหนี่  economy frugality kwam-tre-ne

miserliness

mi ser li ness |ˈmīzərlēnis ˈmaɪzərlinɪs | ▶noun excessive desire to save money; extreme meanness: the party earned a damaging reputation for miserliness by cutting pensions. • the quality of being small or inadequate; meagerness: the relative miserliness of the prizes involved.

miserliness

miser ¦li |ness |ˈmʌɪzəlɪnɪs | ▶noun [ mass noun ] excessive desire to save money; extreme meanness: the party earned a damaging reputation for miserliness by cutting pensions. • the quality of being small or inadequate; meagreness: the relative miserliness of the prizes involved.

miserliness

miserliness noun miserliness and greed are quickly followed by fear of losing the money: avarice, acquisitiveness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, penny-pinching, cheese-paring, thrift; meanness, niggardliness, close-fistedness, closeness, penuriousness, illiberality, greed; asceticism, puritanism, masochism; informal stinginess, minginess, tightness, tight-fistedness; N. Amer. cheapness; archaic nearness. ANTONYMS generosity.