"parsimony" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈpɑɹ.sə.ˌmoʊ.ni/ [US], /ˈpɑː.sə.ˌməʊ.ni/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-parsimony.wav [US] Forms: parsimonies [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English parcimonie, from Middle French parsimonie, from Latin parsimōnia (“frugality, sparingness”), from pars-, past participle stem of parcere (“to spare”), + -monia, suffix signifying action, state, or condition. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|parcimonie}} Middle English parcimonie, {{der|en|frm|parsimonie}} Middle French parsimonie, {{der|en|la|parsimōnia||frugality, sparingness}} Latin parsimōnia (“frugality, sparingness”), {{m|la|parcere||to spare}} parcere (“to spare”), {{m|la|-monia}} -monia Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} parsimony (usually uncountable, plural parsimonies)
  1. Great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily. Tags: uncountable, usually Synonyms: stinginess, frugality, economy, tightness, stingy, frugal Translations (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily): φειδωλία (pheidōlía) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), tostoni [feminine] (Breton), пестеливост (pestelivost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), скъперничество (skǎperničestvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), parsimònia [feminine] (Catalan), 吝嗇 (Chinese Mandarin), 吝啬 (lìnsè) (Chinese Mandarin), lakota [feminine] (Czech), sparsomhed (Danish), vrekkigheid [feminine] (Dutch), zuinigheid [feminine] (Dutch), ihnus (Estonian), kröönija (Estonian), kitsi (Estonian), veeringu veeretaja (Estonian), kopikakoi (Estonian), säästäväisyys (Finnish), parcimonie [feminine] (French), Sparsamkeit [feminine] (German), Geiz [masculine] (German), Knauserei [feminine] (German), Pfennigfuchserei [feminine] (German), הִתְקַמְצְנוּת (hitkamtzenút) [feminine] (Hebrew), takarékosság (Hungarian), zsugoriság (Hungarian), barainn [feminine] (Irish), 吝嗇 (rinshoku) (alt: りんしょく) (Japanese), 出し惜しみ (dashioshimi) (alt: だしおしみ) (Japanese), бақылдық (baqyldyq) (Kazakh), есепқорлық (esepqorlyq) (Kazakh), қаттылық (qattylyq) (Kazakh), сараңдық (sarañdyq) (Kazakh), parsimonia [feminine] (Latin), sparsommelighet [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), sparsemd [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), skąpstwo [neuter] (Polish), oszędność [feminine] (Polish), awarycja [archaic, feminine] (Polish), parcimónia [feminine] (Portuguese), parcimônia [feminine] (Portuguese), cumpătare (Romanian), parcimonie [feminine] (Romanian), бережли́вость (berežlívostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), ску́пость (skúpostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), скря́жничество (skrjážničestvo) [neuter] (Russian), štedljivost (Serbo-Croatian), škrtost (Serbo-Croatian), parsimunia [feminine] (Sicilian), skúposť (Slovak), parsimonia (Spanish), sparsamhet [common-gender] (Swedish), snålhet (Swedish), cimrilik (Turkish), pintilik (Turkish), hasislik (Turkish), eli sıkılık (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-parsimony-en-noun-mx3GM6eT Disambiguation of 'great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily': 95 5
  2. (by extension) The quality or characteristic of using the fewest resources or explanations to solve a problem. Tags: broadly, uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Money Synonyms: economy, efficiency, frugality, sparingness Translations (principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem): úspornost [feminine] (Czech), zuinigheid [feminine] (Dutch), säästvus (Estonian), kokkuhoidlikus (Estonian), tagasihoidlikus (Estonian), säästäväisyys (Finnish), économie [feminine] (French), Sparsamkeit [feminine] (German), Parsimonie [feminine] (German), parsimoni (Indonesian), penyederhanaan (Malay), cumpătare (Romanian), parcimonie [feminine] (Romanian), практичность (praktičnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), štedljivost (Serbo-Croatian), oskudnost (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-parsimony-en-noun-XMZfAi1Q Disambiguation of Money: 36 64 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 69 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 23 77 Disambiguation of 'principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem': 8 92
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: law of parsimony, parsimonious, parsimony principle, principle of parsimony Related terms: Occam's razor

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          "lang": "Hebrew",
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          "roman": "sarañdyq",
          "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
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          "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
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          "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
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          "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
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          "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
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          "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
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          "word": "бережли́вость"
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          "ref": "2019 February 15, Boyd A. Mori et al., “A new species of Contarinia Rondani (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) that induces flower galls on canola (Brassicaceae) in the Canadian prairies”, in Canadian Entomologist, volume 151, →DOI, pages 131–148",
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      "code": "br",
      "lang": "Breton",
      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
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        "feminine"
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      "word": "tostoni"
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
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      "code": "bg",
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "word": "吝嗇"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "word": "吝啬"
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "zuinigheid"
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "word": "kröönija"
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "word": "kitsi"
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      "code": "et",
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      "word": "veeringu veeretaja"
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      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "word": "kopikakoi"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "word": "säästäväisyys"
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      "code": "fr",
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      "tags": [
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      ],
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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    },
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Geiz"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Knauserei"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Pfennigfuchserei"
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      "code": "he",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "hu",
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "word": "zsugoriság"
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "barainn"
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      "alt": "りんしょく",
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "word": "吝嗇"
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      "alt": "だしおしみ",
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      "word": "出し惜しみ"
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      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "baqyldyq",
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      "word": "бақылдық"
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    {
      "code": "kk",
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      "word": "есепқорлық"
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      "code": "kk",
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "word": "қаттылық"
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      "code": "kk",
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      "roman": "sarañdyq",
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      "word": "сараңдық"
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      "code": "la",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "nb",
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "sparsommelighet"
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      "code": "nn",
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "sparsemd"
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      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "skąpstwo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "oszędność"
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    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "tags": [
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        "feminine"
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      "word": "awarycja"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "parcimónia"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "tags": [
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    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "word": "cumpătare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "parcimonie"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "berežlívostʹ",
      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "бережли́вость"
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      "roman": "skúpostʹ",
      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ску́пость"
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "скря́жничество"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "word": "škrtost"
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      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
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      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "word": "skúposť"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "word": "snålhet"
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "word": "cimrilik"
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "word": "pintilik"
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      "code": "tr",
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      "sense": "great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily",
      "word": "hasislik"
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      "word": "eli sıkılık"
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      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "úspornost"
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      "code": "nl",
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      "word": "säästvus"
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      "word": "säästäväisyys"
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      "code": "de",
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Parsimonie"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem",
      "word": "parsimoni"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem",
      "word": "penyederhanaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem",
      "word": "cumpătare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "parcimonie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "praktičnostʹ",
      "sense": "principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "практичность"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem",
      "word": "štedljivost"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem",
      "word": "oskudnost"
    }
  ],
  "word": "parsimony"
}

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