Associations to the word «Parsimony»

Wiktionary

PARSIMONY, noun. Great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily.
PARSIMONY, noun. (by extension) The principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem.

Dictionary definition

PARSIMONY, noun. Extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily.
PARSIMONY, noun. Extreme stinginess.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne