miserliness

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)The property of being miserly: excessive parsimony.

   “Near-synonyms: stinginess, cheapness, tightness”

   “Even his amazing miserliness was passed over acceptedly, for of such are the kingdom of shepherd millionaires.”

   “There were enough people in the room who wouldn’t mind seeing Beaufort-Holmes hurt to make the chorus a full and, to the uninitiated ear, good-humoured one. His colleagues wouldn’t mind because of his faith that he was a don, they lecturers or worse, and because of remembered miserlinesses.”