Noun: miserliness mI-zu(r)-lee-nus
- Total lack of generosity with money
"Scrooge's miserliness was central to Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'"
Type of: closeness, meanness, minginess [informal], niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness
Encyclopedia: Miserliness