parsimony

1. 1.

   extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily

   Synonymsparsimoniousnessthriftpenny-pinching

   Broaderfrugality
2. 2.

   extreme stinginess

   Synonymsmeannessminginessniggardlinessniggardnessparsimoniousnesstightnesstightfistednesscloseness

   Broaderstinginess

   Narrowerpettinessmiserliness

Other forms of parsimony

plural

parsimonies·

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 parsimony

What does parsimony mean?

parsimony 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 parsimony?

parsimony has 4 syllables: par-si-mo-ny. The stress falls on "par". In IPA it is /ˈpɑɹsəˌmoʊni/.

What is another word for parsimony?

Close synonyms include parsimoniousness, 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 parsimony a common word?

parsimony 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.

What rhymes with parsimony?

8 words rhyme with parsimony. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.