Parsimonious vs Parsimoniousness - What's the difference?
parsimonious | parsimoniousness |
Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.
Using a minimal number of assumptions, steps, or conjectures.
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* Kiplinger's Personal Finance , January 2002
The state or condition of being parsimonious.
As an adjective parsimonious
is exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.As a noun parsimoniousness is
the state or condition of being parsimonious.parsimonious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The first three college-savings plans stand out for their parsimonious expenses...
- Statistical methods offer the ability to enforce parsimonious selection of the most influential potential predictors of each gene's state.