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Sparing vs Parsimonious - What's the difference?

sparing | parsimonious |

As adjectives the difference between sparing and parsimonious

is that sparing is prudent and restrained in the use of resources; careful, economical or frugal while parsimonious is exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.

As a verb sparing

is .

sparing

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Adjective

(en adjective)
  • prudent and restrained in the use of resources; careful, economical or frugal

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    parsimonious

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  • 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 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.

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