Near-synonyms: (usually admirable) frugality, economy, thrift, thriftiness; (excessive degree) tightness, stinginess; (extreme degree) miserliness; see also Thesaurus:frugal, Thesaurus:stingy
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Parsimony
/ˈpɑɹ.səˌmoʊ.ni/
Synonyms for "parsimony" (82 found)
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Noun(5 words)
austerityausterity programavaricecanninesscarecarefulnesscharinesscheeseparingeconomic planningeconomicalnesseconomyeconomy of means
Strong matches (24)
eleganceexiguityexiguousnessfalse economyforehandednessfrugalityfrugalnessgood managementgreedhusbandryjejunenessjejunityleannesslenten faremanagementmeagernessmeannessmiserliness
Noun(6 words)
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narrownessniggardlinesspaltrinessparsimoniousnesspinchingprovidenceprudenceprudential administrationpuninessscantinessscantnessscrawninessscrimpinessscrimpingskimpinessskimpingslendernessslightnessslim pickingsslimness
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Noun(10 words)
niggardlinessniggardnessparsimoniousnesspenny-pinchingscrimpingsimplicitysimplicity criterionthe less the bettertightfistednesstightness
Adjective(1 words)
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11 entriesacademic writingeconomic behaviorevolutionary biologyfrugalityfrugalnessphilosophical principlephylogeneticsresource managementrhetoricscientific methodologystinginess
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8 entriescharacter-change minimizationminimum-change criterionminimum-parameter modelmiserlinesssimplified theorystinginesssuccinctnessterse style
Collocations
6 entrieseconomy of explanationminimum-change criterionparsimony criterionparsimony principlephylogenetic parsimonyprinciple of parsimony
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5 total sentences available.
Parsimony, and not industry, is the immediate cause of the increase of capital. Industry, indeed, provides the subject which parsimony accumulates. But whatever industry might acquire, if parsimony did not save and store up, the capital would never be the greater.
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If mere parsimony could have made a man rich, Sir Pitt Crawley might have become very wealthy […]
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THE WATERFORD & TRAMORE RAILWAY. By H. Fayle and A. T. Newham. David & Charles. 12s 6d. [...] Parsimony was responsible for low wages: at the turn of the century the Secretary & Manager was receiving £175 a year and the Locomotive Superintendent slightly less.
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