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Definition: Parsimony |
ParsimonyNoun1. Extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily. 2. Extreme stinginess. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "parsimony" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Parsimony \Par"si*mo*ny\, noun. [Latin expression parsimonia, parcimonia; compare to parcere to spare, parsus sparing: compare to the French expression parcimonie.]. (references) |
Synonyms: ParsimonySynonyms: closeness (n), meanness (n), minginess (n), niggardliness (n), niggardness (n), parsimoniousness (n), penny-pinching (n), thrift (n), tightfistedness (n), tightness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Economy | Savings; prevention of waste, save-all; cheese parings and candle ends; parsimony. |
Parsimony | Noun: parsimony, parcity; parsimoniousness, stinginess; Adjective: stint; illiberality, tenacity. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Parsimony |
| English words defined with "parsimony": Pinching ♦ Savingly, Savingness ♦ To whip the cat. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "parsimony": Hudibras. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "parsimony": Parsimonious. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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| Author | Quotation |
Edmund Burke | Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. |
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| "Parsimony" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Parsimony" is used about 49 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 49 | 48,677 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "parsimony": law of parsimony ♦ principle of parsimony. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
parsimony | 45 |
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law parsimony | 4 |
girdle parsimony | 4 |
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crossdress parsimony | 3 |
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| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "parsimony"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kursim (economy, frugality, husbandry, prudence, saving, stockpiling, thrift), koprraci (avarice, cheese paring, closeness, meanness, miserliness, money-grubbing, rapacity, stinginess). (various references) | |
Arabic | تقتير (scantiness, thrift), إمساك (abstention, hold, qualm), شح (cheeseparing, littleness, miserliness, stinginess), بخل شديد. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стиснатост (cheeseparing, nearness), свидливост (closeness), пестеливост (economy, frugality, husbandry, nearness, thrift, thriftiness), икономия (economy, husbandry, thrift). (various references) | |
Czech | lakomství (avarice), šetrnost (frugality, gentleness, thrift). (various references) | |
Farsi | کم خرجی , صرفه جوءی (Economy, Providence, Thrift), خست , امساک . (various references) | |
Finnish | kitsaus. (various references) | |
French | parcimonie. (various references) | |
German | Sparsamkeit (canniness, economizing, economy, frugality, thrift). (various references) | |
Greek | φιλαργυρία (avarice, penuriousness, sordidness, stinginess), φειδώ (husbandry, sparingness, thriftiness), οικονομία (economy, husbandry, saving, savings, spareness, thrift). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קמוץ (clenched, closed, economy, frugality, retrenchment, saving, thrift), קמצ ות (meanness, miserliness, stinginess), חסכ ות (economy, retrenchment, thrift, thriftiness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | takarékosság (economy, frugality, husbandry, providence, self-denial, sparing, thrift), fösvénység (avarice, miserliness, nearness), zsugoriság (miserliness). (various references) | |
Italian | parsimonia (parsimoniousness, thrift, thriftiness). (various references) | |
Manx | spaarailys (frugality), pitteogys (illiberality, inhospitality, nearness, penuriousness), peajeogys (close-fistedness, closeness, miserliness, narrowness, nearness, tightness, tightness in money), cribbidjys (close-fistedness, stinginess). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arsimonypay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | poupança (savings, thrift), parcimônia (austerity, chariness, providence, thrift), economia (economics, economy, frugality, husbandry, providence, retrenchment, save, saving, thrift), avareza (avarice, avidity, cheeseparing, cupidity, miserliness, piggery, pigpen). (various references) | |
Romanian | parcimonie, zgârcenie (avarice, cheese paring, closeness, costiveness, covetousness, miserabliness, skimp, stinginess), economie (chariness, economics, economy, frugality, husbandry, prudence, retrenchment, saving, savings, thrift), cumpãtare (moderation, reasonableness, reservation, reserve, sanity, sobriety, temperance, thrift), chibzuinţã (Providence, thrift). (various references) | |
Russian | скупость (cheese paring, closeness, miserliness, penuriousness, scrimpiness, skimpiness, stinginess), экономия (economy, husbandry, saving), бережливость (chariness, economy, frugality, thrift, thriftiness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | štedljivost (frugality, saving, thrift), škrtost (avarice, miserliness, penurity, scantiness, stinginess). (various references) | |
Spanish | parsimonia (tardiness). (various references) | |
Swedish | njugghet, knussel, gnidighet. (various references) | |
Turkish | pintilik (costiveness, stinginess), cimrilik (closeness, costiveness, illiberality, manginess, meanness, miserliness, nearness, penury, sordidness, stinginess), aşırı tutumluluk. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скупість (cheeseparing, closeness, covetousness, illiberality, meanness, miserliness, tightness), ощадливість (chariness, economy, frugality, husbandry, prudence). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính h tiện (costiveness, miseriliness, parsimoniousness), tính bủn xỉn (churlishness, closeness, costiveness, miseriliness, parsimoniousness, scrimpiness, skimpiness, stinginess), sự tằn tiện. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | parsimonia. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Parsimony" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aprismo, parismony, parsipony, parximony, pasrsimony. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "parsimony" (pronounced pÄ"rsumō'nē) |
| 5 | -u m ō' n ē | acrimony, alimony, ceremony, matrimony, palimony, patrimony, sanctimony, testimony. |
| 3 | -ō' n ē | telephony. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-m-n-o-p-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: paronyms, rampions. | |
-2 letters: masonry, myopias, paronym, paynims, rampion, soprani. | |
-3 letters: amnios, aprons, arsino, inarms, manors, mayors, minors, morays, myopia, myosin, norias, orpins, parson, paynim, payors, pianos, porism, primas, primos, prions, prison, pyrans, ramson, ransom, rayons, romans, rosiny, simony, spinor, sprain, yapons. | |
-4 letters: airns, amino, amins, amirs, amnio, anomy, apron, arson, ayins, inarm, irons, irony. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-m-n-o-p-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: pyromanias. | |
+2 letters: misanthropy, patronymics, pyromancies, pyromaniacs. | |
+3 letters: aminopyrines, impersonally. | |
+4 letters: impersonality, pancreozymins, pyridoxamines. | |
+5 letters: parsimoniously, polymerisation, supernormality. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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