Parsimony vs Pusillanimity - What's the difference?
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Great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily.
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(by extension) The principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem.
The quality or state of being pusillanimous; the vice of being timid and cowardly, and thus not living up to one's full potential; pusillanimousness.
* 1685 . : The Spiritual Guide which Disentangles the Soul, and Brings it by the Inward Way To The Getting of Perfect Contemplation and the Rich Treasure of Internal Peace , CHAP. XVIII: [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/molinos/guide.html].
* 1872 , , "Guest's Confession" in The Atlantic Monthly October 1872.
As nouns the difference between parsimony and pusillanimity
is that parsimony is great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily while pusillanimity is the quality or state of being pusillanimous; the vice of being timid and cowardly, and thus not living up to one's full potential; pusillanimousness.parsimony
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(wikipedia parsimony)Noun
(-)Synonyms
* see'' stinginess''' and ' niggardliness * see also'' economy, frugality, ''' and 'See also
* Occam's RazorExternal links
* *pusillanimity
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Noun
- 132. And although thou often fallest, and seest thy Pusillanimity , and endeavour to get courage, and afflict not thy self; because what God doth not do in forty Years, he sometimes doth in an instant, with a particular Mystery, that we may live low and humble, and know that ‘tis the Work of his powerful Hand, to free us from Sins.
- What I did through indolence and in some degree, I confess, through pusillanimity , I had a fancy to make it appear (by dint of much whistling, as it were, and easy thrusting of my hands into my pocket) that I did through a sort of generous condescension.