grudgingness
(ˈgrʌdʒɪŋnɪs)
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The condition or quality of being grudging, unwilling, reluctant, or stinting.
| 1820 L. Hunt Indicator No. 51 (1822) I. 404 A jealous grudgingness. 1876 Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. lxiv, Nothing grates on me more than that posthumous grudgingness to⁓wards a wife. |