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[pahr-suh-moh-nee] 
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parsimony
[pahr-suh-moh-nee]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stinginess |
| Synonyms: | frugality, meanness, miserliness, niggardliness, providence, selfishness |
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| Main Entry: | avarice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme greed |
| Synonyms: | avidity, close-fistedness, covetousness, cupidity, frugality, grabbiness, greediness, miserliness, niggardliness, parsimony, penny- pinching, penuriousness, rapacity, stinginess, thrift |
| Antonyms: | generosity, philanthropy |
| Main Entry: | economy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | saving, frugality |
| Synonyms: | abridgement, austerity, care, carefulness, caution, curtailment, cutback, decrease, deduction, direction, discretion, husbandry, layoff, meanness, miserliness, moratorium, niggardliness, parcity, parsimony, providence, prudence, recession, reduction, regulation, restraint, retrenchment, rollback, scrimping, shrinkage, skimping, sparingness, stinginess, supervision, thrift, thriftiness |
| Antonyms: | spending, squandering |
| Main Entry: | frugality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | economizing |
| Synonyms: | avarice, avariciousness, carefulness, conservation, economy, forehandedness, good management, miserliness, moderation, niggardliness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, penuriousness, providence, prudence, saving, scrimping, stinginess, thrift, thriftiness |
| Antonyms: | generosity, lavishness, wastefulness |
| Main Entry: | thrift |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | economy |
| Synonyms: | austerity, carefulness, economizing, frugality, parsimony, providence, prudence, saving, stinginess, thriftiness |
| Antonyms: | extravagance, spending, waste |
| Main Entry: | meanness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the quality of being mean |
| Synonyms: | abjection, avarice, baseness, beastliness, churlishness, closeness, contemptibleness, corruptness, covetousness, debasement, degeneracy, degradation, disrepute, frugality, greed, ill-temper, infamy, iniquity, knavishness, lowness, malice, malignity, miserliness, parsimony, pettiness, rapacity, shamelessness, smallmindedness, sordidness, stinginess, unkindness, unscrupulousness, unworthiness, wickedness |
| Antonyms: | generosity, nobility, worthiness |
| Main Entry: | closeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nearness |
| Synonyms: | adjacency, compactness, density, illiberality, intimacy, parsimony, penuriousness, propinquity, proximity, reticence, secrecy, secretiveness, stinginess, strictness |
| Main Entry: | thriftiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | economy |
| Synonyms: | abridgement, austerity, care, carefulness, caution, curtailment, cutback, decrease, deduction, direction, discretion, frugality, husbandry, layoff, meanness, miserliness, moratorium, niggardliness, parcity, parsimony, providence, prudence, recession, reduction, regulation, restraint, retrenchment, rollback, scrimping, shrinkage, skimping, sparingness, stinginess, supervision, thrift |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | frugality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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