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parsimony::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, tightfistedness, tightness |
| Type of | stinginess |
| Has types | smallness, miserliness, littleness, pettiness |
| Derivation | parsimonious |
parsimony::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | parsimoniousness, penny-pinching, thrift |
| Type of | frugalness, frugality |
| Derivation | parsimonious |
Examples of parsimony
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Consumer parsimony threatens to keep an emerging recovery from taking full flight.
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Inference of ancestral states was performed in MacClade 4 by the parsimony method.
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He took pleasure in parsimony, in eking out enjoyment and dreaming of a rainy day.
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Both parsimony and extravagance signify moral impoverishment in Drabble's fiction.
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In this respect, the principle of parsimony, or Occam's Razor, plays a role.
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In the following three years there will be a long-overdue return to public parsimony.
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William of Ockham is remembered for his principle of ontological parsimony.
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Occam's razor and parsimony support, but do not prove these general axioms of science.
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Just because we are experimenting with parsimony doesn't mean we have to look like we are.
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- Extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
- Meanness: extreme stinginess
- (parsimonious) excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence"
- Parsimony is the use of the simplest or most frugal route of explanation available. The word derives from Middle English parcimony, from Latin parsimonia, from parsus, past participle of parcere: to spare. ...
- (parsimonious) Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy; Using a minimal number of assumptions, steps, or conjectures
- (parsimonious) excessively sparing or frugal
- (PARSIMONIOUS) Economical or frugal, condensing large number of things into smaller groups
- (Parsimonious) (sparing in its proposed entities or explanations, see Occam's Razor)
- (Parsimonious) Requiring relatively fewer or less extreme assumptions. The Law of Parsimony suggests that when one is faced with two competing theories that both explain a phenomenon, that one select the theory that requires the fewest or less extreme assumptions.
