Meaning of Parsimony | Babel Free
ˈpɑɹ.səˌmoʊ.niDefinitions
- Great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily.
- The quality or characteristic of using the fewest resources or explanations to solve a problem.
Equivalents
العربية
البخل
Català
parsimònia
Ελληνικά
φειδώ
Español
parsimonia
Eesti
kitsi
Gaeilge
barainn
Galego
parsimonia
Kurdî
lakota
Latina
parsimonia
Bahasa Melayu
penyederhanaan
Português
parcimônia
Examples
“Near-synonyms: (usually admirable) frugality, economy, thrift, thriftiness; (excessive degree) tightness, stinginess; (extreme degree) miserliness; see⟳ also Thesaurus:frugal, Thesaurus:stingy”
“Parsimony, and not industry, is the immediate cause of the increase⟳ of capital. Industry, indeed, provides the subject which parsimony accumulates. But whatever industry might acquire⟳, if parsimony did not save⟳ and store up, the capital would never be the greater.”
“If mere parsimony could have⟳ made a man rich, Sir Pitt Crawley might have⟳ become⟳ very wealthy […]”
“THE WATERFORD & TRAMORE RAILWAY. By H. Fayle and A. T. Newham. David & Charles. 12s 6d. [...] Parsimony was responsible for low wages: at the turn⟳ of the century the Secretary & Manager was receiving £175 a year and the Locomotive Superintendent slightly less.”
“We used three search⟳ heuristics, Bayesian inference, maximum likelihood, and maximum parsimony, to construct phylogenies from unique COI haplotypes and used default parameters for analyses unless otherwise noted.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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