noun · uncountable · rare

parsimony

par·si·mony

бережливость, скряжничество, скупость

Geiz, Knauserei, Pfennigfuchserei, Sparsamkeit

With a negative connotation: great reluctance to spend money or other resourcesWith a negative connotation: great reluctance to spend money or other resources; miserliness, stinginess; (countable) an instance of this.

UK/ˈpɑːsɪməni/US/ˈpɑɹsəˌmoʊni/

Meaning

4 senses

(uncountable, usually)With a negative connotation: great reluctance to spend money or other resources; miserliness, stinginess; (countable) an instance of this.
Geiz, Knauserei, Pfennigfuchserei
бережли́востьberežlívostʹ, скря́жничествоskrjážničestvo, ску́постьskúpostʹ
extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
(archaic, uncountable, usually)With a positive connotation: careful spending of money or other resources; frugality, thrift; (countable) an instance of this.
With a positive connotation: careful spending of money or other resources; frugality, thrift; (countable) an instance of this.
(archaic, uncountable, usually)The quality of not generously giving, showing, or using something intangible, such as emotion, praise, or words.
(archaic, uncountable, usually)Chiefly in law of parsimony, principle of parsimony, etc.: the quality or characteristic of using the fewest facts or resources to explain a situation or to solve a problem.
Parsimonie, Sparsamkeit
практичностьpraktičnostʹ

Translations

7 languages

Русский

By meaning 2

with a negative connotation: great reluctance to spend money or other resources unnecessarily; an instance of this — see also miserliness, stinginess:

quality or characteristic of using the fewest facts or resources to explain a situation or to solve a problem:

Deutsch

By meaning 2

with a negative connotation: great reluctance to spend money or other resources unnecessarily; an instance of this — see also miserliness, stinginess:

quality or characteristic of using the fewest facts or resources to explain a situation or to solve a problem:

Origin

From Late Middle English parcimonie, parcimony (“economy, frugality, thrift”), borrowed fr

From Late Middle English parcimonie, parcimony (“economy, frugality, thrift”), borrowed from Latin parcimōnia, parsimōnia (“frugality, thrift, parsimony; moderation, restraint; stinginess”), from pars- (the past participial stem of parcō (“to economize, save up; etc.”)) + -mōnia (suffix forming abstract nouns). The further etymology of parcō is uncertain; it is possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“away; off”) + *h₂erk- (“to hold; to guard, protect; to lock”).

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