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• n  extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
• n  extreme stinginess

• At a time of upheaval throughout the developing world, Europe's parsimony has done nothing for its reputation.
• Peking's parsimony did not sit well with delegates from other hungry, have-not countries.
• Then again, I can't blame the local manager for this parsimony, since she hardly has any room for more people.

• parsimoniousness
• thrift
• penny-pinching
• meanness
• minginess
• niggardliness
• niggardness
• tightness
• tightfistedness
• closeness

News & Articles

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• The ever-increasing value of parsimony
  We're in a bull market for parsimony. Maybe even a parsimony bubble. Parsimony, which is a polite way to talk about penny-pinching, has never been a more valuable habit. Even with investment y…
  July 14, 2013 - Provo Daily Herald
• Scott Burns: The ever-increasing value of parsimony
  We’re in a bull market for parsimony. Maybe even a parsimony bubble. Parsimony, which is a polite way to talk about penny-pinching, has never been a more valuable habit. Even with investment yields up from their recent lows, I think it is safe to predict that parsimony is well on its way to becoming a high art.
  July 14, 2013 - Abilene Reporter-News
• Burns: The ever-increasing value of pinching your pennies
  We're in a bull market for parsimony. Maybe even a parsimony bubble. Parsimony, which is a polite way to talk about penny-pinching, has never been a more valuable habit.
  July 14, 2013 - Salem Statesman Journal