| Parsimony (n.) Closeness or sparingness in the expenditure of money; -- generally in a bad sense; excessive frugality; niggardliness. Thesaurus Entries Lenten fare, austerity, austerity program, canniness, care, carefulness, chariness, economic planning, economicalness, economy, economy of means, exiguity, exiguousness, false economy, forehandedness, frugality, frugalness, good management, husbandry, jejuneness, jejunity, leanness, management, meagerness, meanness, miserliness, narrowness, niggardliness, paltriness, parsimoniousness, providence, prudence, prudential administration, puniness, scantiness, scantness, scrawniness, scrimpiness, skimpiness, slenderness, slightness, slim pickings, slimness, smallness, spareness, sparingness, stinginess, thinness, thrift, thriftiness, tight purse strings, unwastefulness |