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Synonyms of niggardliness in English:
niggardliness
See definition of niggardliness
noun
1‘he condemned the Government's niggardliness about funding’
SYNONYMS
meanness, miserliness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, close-fistedness, penny-pinching, cheese-paring, penury, illiberality
informal stinginess, tight-fistedness, tightness, minginess
North American cheapness
archaic nearness
ANTONYMS
generosity
2‘he was disappointed at the niggardliness of his reward’
SYNONYMS
meagreness, inadequacy, scantiness, paltriness, limitedness, restrictedness, insufficiency, sparseness, spareness, deficiency, shortness, slightness, skimpiness, leanness, poorness, poverty, pitifulness, puniness, beggarliness
informal measliness
rare exiguity
ANTONYMS
lavishness, abundance
