niggardliness

Other forms of niggardliness

plural

niggardlinesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about niggardliness

What does niggardliness mean?

niggardliness means "extreme stinginess".

How many syllables are in niggardliness?

niggardliness has 4 syllables: nig-gard-li-ness. The stress falls on "nig". In IPA it is /ˈnɪɡɚdlinəs/.

What is another word for niggardliness?

Close synonyms include meanness, minginess, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is niggardliness a common word?

niggardliness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.