Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Parsimony \Par"si*mo*ny\, n. [L. parsimonia, parcimonia; cf.
parcere to spare, parsus sparing: cf. F. parcimonie.]
Closeness or sparingness in the expenditure of money; --
generally in a bad sense; excessive frugality; niggardliness.
--Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
Awful parsimony presided generally at the table.
--Thackeray.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Economy; frugality; illiberality; covetousness;
closeness; stinginess. See {Economy}.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
parsimony
n 1: extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money
unnecessarily [syn: {parsimony}, {parsimoniousness},
{thrift}, {penny-pinching}]
2: extreme stinginess [syn: {meanness}, {minginess},
{niggardliness}, {niggardness}, {parsimony},
{parsimoniousness}, {tightness}, {tightfistedness},
{closeness}]
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