Parsimony synonyms

pär'sə-mō'nē

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greed (related)
The definition of greed is an intense desire to accumulate large amounts of something, such as food or money, especially if you try to acquire more than you need or more than your fair share.
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frugality (related)
A sparing use; sparingness.
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meanness
A mean act; as, to be guilty of a meanness.
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minginess
extreme stinginess
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niggardliness
extreme stinginess
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parsimoniousness
The state or condition of being parsimonious.
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tightness
The quality or degree of being tight
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closeness
(Mathematics) The shortest path between two vertices in a graph
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thrift
(Brit., Dial.) A means of thriving; work; labor
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penny-pinching
Instance of extreme economy.
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stinginess
A lack of generosity.
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niggardness
extreme stinginess
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selfishness
The quality of being selfish, the condition of putting one's own interests before those of others
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providence
Divine care or direction, the will of God or the gods; fate
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a posteriori (related)
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entailment (related)
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strictness (related)
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  • This ill-timed parsimony reacted injuriously upon Polish politics.

  • More than not, however, reductive realists object to non-reductivists on grounds of theoretical parsimony.

  • Sixty six morphological character matrices were analyzed using parsimony.

  • He was then a mere lad, amiable, well-meaning, but entirely under the dominion of his mother, a woman of many virtues, who surrounded him with wise counsellors, watched over the development of his character and improved the tone of the administration, but on the other hand was inordinately jealous, and alienated the army by extreme parsimony, while neither she nor her son had a strong enough hand to keep tight the reins of military discipline.

  • During this discussion we introduce a number of recent developments of gene tree parsimony methods overlooked by Simmons and Freudenstein.

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