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noun
extreme or excessive economy or frugality; stinginess; niggardliness.
Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English parcimony < Latin parsimōnia, parcimōnia frugality, thrift, equivalent to parsi- (combining form of parsus, past participle of parcere to economize) or parci- (combining form of parcus sparing) + -mōnia -mony
1400–50; late Middle English parcimony < Latin parsimōnia, parcimōnia frugality, thrift, equivalent to parsi- (combining form of parsus, past participle of parcere to economize) or parci- (combining form of parcus sparing) + -mōnia -mony
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Parsimony
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Example Sentences
- Grocers will suffer in a new era of parsimony.
- Essays are interspersed with vivid poems, haiku-like in their verbal parsimony and eloquent in their evocation of time and place.
- Science requires more than parsimony to explain how the world works.
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Word Origin & History
parsimony
early 15c., from L. parsimonia "sparingness, frugality," from pars-, stem of parsi, perf. tense of parcere "to spare, save" + -monia, suffix signifying action or condition.
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