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Narrowness vs Penuriousness - What's the difference?

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Narrowness is a related term of penuriousness.


As nouns the difference between narrowness and penuriousness

is that narrowness is (uncountable) the state of being narrow while penuriousness is the quality of being penurious.

narrowness

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) the state of being narrow
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , presently, then, I felt the stiff insertion between the yielding, divided lips of the wound, now open for life; where the narrowness no longer put me to intolerable pain, and afforded my lover no more difficulty than what heighten'd his pleasure, in the strict embrace of that tender, warm sheath, round the instrument it was so delicately adjusted to}}
  • (countable) a constriction

    • Antonyms

    *(state of being narrow) broadness, wideness

    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