parsimony
Reluctance to spend
Parsimony is extreme reluctance to spend money or use resources—stinginess elevated to principle.
The word carries a judgmental edge: His parsimony bordered on the absurd.
In scientific contexts, parsimony names a methodological preference for the simplest explanation that fits the facts: The principle of parsimony favors fewer assumptions.
Careful use of resources
- frugalityEconomical resource management
- economizingReducing expenditures deliberately
- scrimpingExcessive thrift, stingy saving
- penny-pinchingExtreme reluctance to spend
budgeting · sparing · prudence · restraint · moderation · husbandry · provident · judicious
Prefer simplest sufficient explanation
- eleganceRefined, graceful quality
- simplicityLack of complexity
- economySystem of trade and production
- hypothesisTestable proposed explanation
explanation · theory · variables · assumptions · model · reductionism · scientific method · principle
Excessive reluctance to spend
- tightfistedUnwilling to spend freely
- cheapnessLow price quality
- niggardlinessExcessive reluctance to give
- cheapskateStingy person
scrooge · ungenerous · grudging · closefisted · pinching · hoarding · mean · meager
Aesthetic of reduction
- spartanRigorously simple, unadorned
- austereSeverely simple and unadorned
- bareLacking any covering
- unadornedLacking decoration or ornament
plainness · streamlined · understated · elegance · clarity · zen · monastic · essentialism
thrift
Careful use of resources
- frugalityEconomical resource management
- economizingReducing expenditures deliberately
- scrimpingExcessive thrift, stingy saving
penny-pinching · budgeting · sparing · prudence · restraint · moderation · husbandry · provident · judicious · careful
Occam's razor
Prefer simplest sufficient explanation
- eleganceRefined, graceful quality
- simplicityLack of complexity
- economySystem of trade and production
hypothesis · explanation · theory · variables · assumptions · model · reductionism · scientific method · principle · inference
miserliness
Excessive reluctance to spend
- tightfistedUnwilling to spend freely
- cheapnessLow price quality
- niggardlinessExcessive reluctance to give
cheapskate · scrooge · ungenerous · grudging · closefisted · pinching · hoarding · mean · meager · chintzy
minimalism
Aesthetic of reduction
unadorned · plainness · streamlined · understated · elegance · clarity · zen · monastic · essentialism · stripped-down
- frugalityfrugality, thrift, frugal, penny-pinching, economize
- stinginessstinginess, miserliness, miserly, penny-pinching, stingy
- money mindsetsfrugal, thrifty, generous, stingy, greedy
- phylogeneticscladogram, clade, phylogeny, phylogenetics, cladistics
- cutbackscutback, cutbacks, decrease, layoff, reduction
- philosophy termstruth, reason, knowledge, wisdom, logic
parsimonyextravagance
Excessive, wasteful spending
prodigality · wastefulness · lavishness · squandering · profligacy
parsimonygenerosity
Readiness to give freely
liberality · largesse · munificence · bountifulness · openhandedness
parsimonyverbosity
Unnecessary word excess
prolixity · elaboration · redundancy · ornateness · floridity