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parsimony

noun
/ˈpɑɹ.səˌmoʊ.ni/US/ˈpɑː.sə.mə.ni/UK

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.

  1. derived from parsimōnia
  2. derived from parsimonie
  3. inherited from parcimonie

Definitions

  1. Great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily.

    • 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 […]

  2. The quality or characteristic of using the fewest resources or explanations to solve a…

    The quality or characteristic of using the fewest resources or explanations to solve a problem.

    • 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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Derived

law of parsimony, parsimonious, parsimony principle, principle of parsimony

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for parsimony. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA