Stinginess vs Generosity - What's the difference?
stinginess | generosity |
A lack of generosity.
(uncountable) The trait of being willing to donate money and/or time.
* 1963 : Erik H. Erikson, Childhood and Society
(uncountable) Acting generously.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
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, title= (uncountable) The trait of being abundant, more than adequate.
(literally, uncountable) Good breeding; nobility of stock.
(countable) A generous act.
* 1873 : Reverend M. C. Tyler, Proceedings at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Sage College of the Cornell University
Generosity is a antonym of stinginess.
As nouns the difference between stinginess and generosity
is that stinginess is a lack of generosity while generosity is the trait of being willing to donate money and/or time.stinginess
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* parsimony * niggardliness * see also greed, avaricegenerosity
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- We have mentioned generosity as an outstanding virtue required in Sioux life.
Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
- May the generosities of the founders of these halls, be rewarded by the fair and holy characters which shall be here formed.
