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parsimoniousness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun parsimoniousness has 2 senses
- parsimoniousness(n = noun.attribute) parsimony, penny-pinching, thrift - extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily; Array is a kind of frugality, frugalness
- parsimoniousness(n = noun.attribute) closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness - extreme stinginess; Array is a kind of stinginess
Derived form adjective parsimonious1
has particulars: littleness, pettiness, smallness, miserliness
Derived form adjective parsimonious1
CIDE DICTIONARY
parsimoniousness, n.
- The quality of being parsimonious; extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily. [WordNet 1.5]
- An extreme stinginess. [WordNet 1.5]
ROGET THESAURUS
parsimoniousness
Parsimony
N parsimony, parcity, parsimoniousness, stinginess, stint, illiberality, tenacity, avarice, greed, miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm, scrimp, lickpenny, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer, Hessian, pinch fist, pinch penny, parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close, fast handed, close handed, strait handed, close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted, tight, sparing, chary, grudging, griping, illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious, with a sparing hand, desunt inopioe multa avaritiae omnia, hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill, the unsunn'd heaps of miser's treasures.
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