parsimony.
With a negative connotation: great reluctance to spend money or other resources; miserliness, stinginess; (countable) an instance of this.
Meaning & usage
With a negative connotation: great reluctance to spend money or other resources; miserliness, stinginess; (countable) an instance of this.
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. The quality of not generously giving, showing, or using something intangible, such as emotion, praise, or words.
With a positive connotation: careful spending of money or other resources; frugality, thrift; (countable) an instance of this. 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.
Where this word comes from
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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