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parsimony
/ˈpɑɹsəˌmoʊni/
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What does parsimony mean?
noun
- With a negative connotation: great reluctance to spend money or other resources; miserliness, stinginess; (countable) an instance of this.
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noun
- (archaic) With a positive connotation: careful spending of money or other resources; frugality, thrift; (countable) an instance of this.
- (archaic) The quality of not generously giving, showing, or using something intangible, such as emotion, praise, or words.
- (archaic) Chiefly in law of parsimony, principle of parsimony, etc.: the quality or characteristic of using the fewest facts or resources to explain a situation or to solve a problem.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈpɑɹsəˌmoʊni/
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The security of all would thus be subjected to the parsimony, improvidence, or inability of a part.
“Thirty-five dollars just thrown out of the window,” cried Trina, her teeth clicking, every instinct of her parsimony aroused.
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How, then, did the word Thrift get to mean parsimony, frugality, the opposite of waste?
The high rate of profit seems everywhere to destroy that parsimony which, in other circumstances, is natural to the character of the merchant.
Nature made no allowance for their constant warfare with the elements, and the parsimony with which she had meted out to them the enjoyments of life.