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Parsimony
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What's The Definition Of Parsimony?
[n] extreme stinginess
[n] extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily Synonyms | Synonyms for Parsimony: closeness | meanness | minginess | niggardliness | niggardness | parsimoniousness | penny-pinching | thrift | tightfistedness | tightness Related Terms | Find terms related to Parsimony: austerity | austerity program | canniness | care | carefulness | chariness | economic planning | economicalness | economy | economy of means | exiguity | exiguousness | false economy | forehandedness | frugality | frugalness | good management | husbandry | jejuneness | jejunity | leanness | Lenten fare | management | meagerness | meanness | miserliness | narrowness | niggardliness | paltriness | parsimoniousness | providence | prudence | prudential administration | puniness | scantiness | scantness | scrawniness | scrimpiness | skimpiness | slenderness | slightness | slim pickings | slimness | smallness | spareness | sparingness | stinginess | thinness | thrift | thriftiness | tight purse strings | unwastefulness See Also | frugality | frugalness | miserliness | pettiness | stinginess Parsimony In Webster's Dictionary \Par"si*mo*ny\, n. [L. parsimonia, parcimonia; cf.
parcere to spare, parsus sparing: cf. F. parcimonie.]
Closeness or sparingness in the expenditure of money; --
generally in a bad sense; excessive frugality; niggardliness.
--Bacon.
Awful parsimony presided generally at the table.
--Thackeray.
Syn: Economy; frugality; illiberality; covetousness;
closeness; stinginess. See {Economy}.
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