parsimoniousness

Other forms of parsimoniousness

plural

parsimoniousnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about parsimoniousness

What does parsimoniousness mean?

parsimoniousness means "extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in parsimoniousness?

parsimoniousness has 6 syllables: par-si-mo-ni-ou-sness. The stress falls on "ni".

What is another word for parsimoniousness?

Close synonyms include parsimony, thrift, penny-pinching, meanness, minginess. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is parsimoniousness a common word?

parsimoniousness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.