PRINCIPLE OF PARSIMONY Synonyms

• terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words

• the system of production and distribution and consumption

• the efficient use of resources

• frugality in the expenditure of money or resources

• an act of economizing; reduction in cost

• the ratio of the output to the input of any system

• skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort

• prudence in avoiding waste

• an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color

• quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes

• a change for the better

• the trait of avoiding excesses

• the action of lessening in severity or intensity

• the state of being unmixed with other material

• clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous

• the appearance of being plain and unpretentious

• an appearance that is not attractive or beautiful

• the quality of being simple or uncompounded

• a lack of penetration or subtlety

• absence of affectation or pretense

• freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort

• lack of ornamentation

• the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness

• the quality of being direct and straightforward

• without hypocrisy

• the principle that entities should not be multiplied needlessly; the simplest of two competing theories is to be preferred

• the principle that entities should not be multiplied needlessly; the simplest of two competing theories is to be preferred

• the principle that entities should not be multiplied needlessly; the simplest of two competing theories is to be preferred