资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Niggardliness \Nig"gard*li*ness\, n.
   The quality or state of being niggard; meanness in giving or
   spending; parsimony; stinginess.

         Niggardliness is not good husbandry.     --Addison.

资料来源 : WordNet®

niggardliness
     n : extreme stinginess [syn: {meanness}, {minginess}, {niggardness},
          {parsimony}, {parsimoniousness}, {tightness}, {tightfistedness},
          {closeness}]