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parsimony

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈpɑɹ.səˌmoʊ.ni/Part of speech nounSorted aimnoprsyStarts with PEnds with Y0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. extreme stinginess

Word origin

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.

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  • Near-synonyms: (usually admirable) frugality, economy, thrift, thriftiness; (excessive degree) tightness, stinginess; (extreme degree) miserliness; see also Thesaurus:frugal, Thesaurus:stingy
  • If mere parsimony could have made a man rich, Sir Pitt Crawley might have become very wealthy […]
  • 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.

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