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41nearness — n. 1. Closeness, neighborhood, proximity. 2. Propinquity, consanguinity. 3. Intimacy, familiarity. 4. Parsimony, penuriousness, closeness …
42parsimony — n. Stinginess, niggardliness, penuriousness, avarice, covetousness, cupidity, meanness, closeness, miserliness, frugality, economy, illiberality, savingness …
43parsimony — noun the parsimony of her grandparents had embittered her against the elderly Syn: cheapness, miserliness, meanness, parsimoniousness, niggardliness, close fistedness, closeness, penny pinching; informal stinginess, minginess, tightness,… …
44poverty — poverty, indigence, penury, want, destitution, privation all denote the state of one who is poor or without enough to live upon. Poverty, the most comprehensive of these terms, typically implies such deficiency of resources that one is deprived… …
45stingy — stingy, close, closefisted, tight, tightfisted, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, miserly, cheeseparing, penny pinching can mean unwilling or manifesting unwillingness to share one s goods with others or to give to another a part of one s… …
46abstinence — n 1. teetotalism, nephalism, temperance, sobriety, soberness; prohibition, blue ribbonism; Rechabitism. 2. abstention, nonindulgence, abstemiousness, moderation, continence, celibacy, fasting; Puritanism, austerity, self mortification, self… …
47acquisitiveness — n greed, graspingness, rapacity, perdaciousness, avarice, selfishness; ravenousness, voraciousness, insatiability, omnivorousness, covet ousness; miserliness, penuriousness, parsimony, niggardliness …
48avarice — n 1. greed, graspingness, acquisitiveness, Sl. grabbiness, avariciousness, rapacity, rapaciousness; selfishness, miserliness, penuriousness, parsimony, niggardliness; stinginess, meanness, close fistedness, tight fistedness, mercenariness,… …
49churlishness — n 1. rusticity, ruralism, agrarianism; pastoralism, pastorality, bucolicism; inurbanity, back woodsiness, provincialism, provinciality, yokelism, Sl. hickishness; hominess, homeliness, homishness, Inf. folksiness. 2. boorishness, loutishness,… …
50covetousness — n 1. desire, greed, graspingness, acquisitiveness, Sl. grabbiness, avariciousness, rapacity, rapaciousness; selfishness, self seeking, egocentricity, self interest, self indulgence; miserliness, penuriousness, parsimony, niggardliness; stinginess …
