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Noun parsimony has 2 senses
  1. parsimony, parsimoniousness, thrift, penny-pinching - extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
    --1 is a kind of frugality, frugalness
  2. meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness - extreme stinginess
    --2 is a kind of stinginess
    --2 has particulars: pettiness; miserliness
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