Sparsimony

To save a top-notch attraction for the next visit. Adjective: sparsimonious, adj.

"So, you made it to The Big Apple! Did you get to Ollie's joint?"
"Naw! In a fit of sparsimony, we gave it a miss for next time!"

by Attika-Elvis October 25, 2009

parsimony

Adoption of the simplest explanation for an observation. Also stinginess or frugality in regards to economics and finance.

Vanguard must spend a lot of money on printing and mailing its statements, because of the extra paper involved. Undoubtedly, that was a tough decision for the company, which is known for its parsimony

by sug-almighty July 8, 2005

of parsimony

The Principle "of parsimony" infers that a phenomena can be explained best with the simplest hypothesis that accounts for all the evidence. Since we can only tell the difference between something that is true and something that is false, by inferring our own observations and using the general rule to make a guess, adding entities to a hypothesis that are not accounted for by evidence results in a hypothesis that is not parsimonious and less believable than prior.

This is referred to and explained in Occam's Razor, which follows the same basic principle.

The word may also be used to infer simplicity, or the state of a hypothesis in which it explains a phenomenon using entities suggested by evidence, and no absolutely more.

"Your hypothesis for insert phenomena, i.e.gravitational effects derived from atomic warp of spacetime was fine until you added entity to it, we have no evidence for that, you're just making stuff up, we observed the electromagnetic fluctuation before in CERN, why do you need to make it more complex, just do the math and see if it works, trust me it seems accurate enough already. Just apply the Principle of parsimony!"

by Yared Scott February 1, 2016

Spazimony

the amount of money paid to the mother of your illegitimate children that you would otherwise spend on drugs and alcohol.

"Hey Darren, where's my spazimony? You haven't spent it all on nangs and crack again, have you?"

by boogerzz October 1, 2008

parsimony

When the parser you are writing keeps producing most obvious error messages or error messages that are obviously wrong. Also spelt pars_mony

I say old chap that parser you wrote has the parsimony property.

by neer do well July 31, 2023