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penuriousnessnoun the quality or practice of being overly sparing with moneyhe daily practiced such penuriousness that few would have guessed that he was one of the state's wealthiest residents cheapness, cheeseparing, closeness, miserliness, niggardliness, parsimony, penny-pinching, pinching, stinginess, tightfistedness, tightness conserving, economizing, economy, frugality, husbandry, providence, scrimping, skimping, thriftconservation, savinghusbanding, managing bountifulness, bounty, generosity, largesse(also largess), liberality, openhandedness, openheartedness, philanthropy, unselfishnessextravagance, lavishnessdissipation, improvidence, prodigality, squandering, wastefulness the state of lacking sufficient money or material possessionsthe abject penuriousness of so many of the city's inhabitants should be a cause for concern beggary, destituteness, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, necessity, need, neediness, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty, want gutter, misery, woe, wretchednessexigencyemergency, rainy dayausterity, deprivation, privationbankruptcy, insolvencybelt-tightening, pinching, straitening affluence, opulence, richness, wealth, wealthiness luxury, prosperity |