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Definition of Parsimoniousness
1. Noun. Extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily.
Generic synonyms: Frugality, Frugalness
Derivative terms: Parsimonious, Parsimonious, Penny-pinching, Thrifty, Thrifty
2. Noun. Extreme stinginess.
Generic synonyms: Stinginess
Specialized synonyms: Littleness, Pettiness, Smallness, Miserliness
Derivative terms: Close, Mean, Mean, Mingy, Niggardly, Parsimonious, Parsimonious, Tightfisted, Tight
Definition of Parsimoniousness
1. Noun. The state or condition of being parsimonious. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parsimoniousness
Literary usage of Parsimoniousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chinese Classics: Translated Into English, with Preliminary Essays and by James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Ching Shih (1876)
"THE EXTREME parsimoniousness EVEN OP WEALTHY MEN IN WEI. 1 Thin cloth of dolichos
supplies the shoes, In which some have to brave the frost and cold. ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"I hope," adds Walpole, in cynical comment upon the well-known parsimoniousness
of King George II., "some future Howe or Holinshed will acquaint posterity ..."
3. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1863)
"While in most things he was economical almost to parsimoniousness, in the purchase
of law books he was extravagant. His reports gave great credit to the ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1894)
"... but Irish people seem to prefer waste places and neglected corners to prim
parsimoniousness. But it must not be supposed that all establishments in ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1864)
"... he lived for some time with a parsimoniousness scarcely prudent ; and, on the
other hand, when be thought the Government had not dealt with proper ..."
6. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike (1874)
"... and the parsimoniousness of nature is justified by its powerful effect in
rousing the dormant faculties, and forcing on mankind the invention of useful ..."
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