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" (81 found)
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75 translations across 34 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- φειδωλία noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
Breton
1 entries- tostoni noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
Bulgarian
2 entries- пестеливост noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- скъперничество noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
Catalan
1 entries- parsimònia noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 吝嗇 /吝啬 noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- 節儉 /节俭 noun (principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem)
Czech
2 entries- lakota noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- úspornost noun (principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem)
Danish
1 entries- sparsomhed noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
Dutch
3 entries- vrekkigheid noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- zuinigheid noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- zuinigheid noun (principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem)
Estonian
4 entries- ihnus noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- kitsi noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- kokkuhoidlikus noun (principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem)
- kopikakoi noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
Finnish
2 entries- säästäväisyys noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- säästäväisyys noun (principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem)
French
2 entries- parcimonie noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- économie noun (principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem)
Galician
1 entries- parsimonia noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
German
4 entries- Geiz noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- Knauserei noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- Parsimonie noun (principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem)
- Pfennigfuchserei noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
Hebrew
1 entries- הִתְקַמְצְנוּת noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
Hungarian
2 entries- takarékosság noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- zsugoriság noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
Indonesian
1 entries- parsimoni noun (principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem)
Irish
1 entries- barainn noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
Japanese
2 entries- 出し惜しみ noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- 吝嗇 noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
Kazakh
4 entries- бақылдық noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- есепқорлық noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- сараңдық noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- қаттылық noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
Latin
1 entries- parsimonia noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
Malay
1 entries- penyederhanaan noun (principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- sparsommelighet noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- sparsemd noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- اداره noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- اداره noun (principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem)
Polish
3 entries- awarycja noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- oszędność noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- skąpstwo noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
Portuguese
2 entries- parcimónia noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- parcimônia noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
Romanian
4 entries- cumpătare noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- cumpătare noun (principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem)
- parcimonie noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- parcimonie noun (principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem)
Russian
4 entries- бережли́вость noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- практичность noun (principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem)
- скря́жничество noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- ску́пость noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- oskudnost noun (principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem)
- škrtost noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- štedljivost noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- štedljivost noun (principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem)
Sicilian
1 entries- parsimunia noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
Slovak
1 entries- skúposť noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
Spanish
1 entries- parsimonia noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
Swedish
2 entries- snålhet noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- sparsamhet noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
Turkish
4 entries- cimrilik noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- eli sıkılık noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- hasislik noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
- pintilik noun (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)
Sample sentences
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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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