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Meanness vs Penuriousness - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between meanness and penuriousness

is that meanness is the condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess while penuriousness is the quality of being penurious.

meanness

English

Alternative forms

* meaness

Noun

(es)
  • (uncountable) The condition, or quality, of being ; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.
    • This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship. Addison
  • A mean act; as, to be guilty of a meanness .

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    penuriousness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being penurious.
  • :In Dickens' ''A Christmas Carol'', the character Ebenezer Scrooge is renowned for his penuriousness.

    • Synonyms

    *(quality of being penurious ): cheapness, frugality, miserliness, thriftiness