imparsimonious
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From im- + parsimonious.
Adjective
[edit]imparsimonious (comparative more imparsimonious, superlative most imparsimonious)
- Not parsimonious.
- 1966, Paul E[verett] Meehl, “The Compleat[sic] Autocerebroscopist: A Thought-Experiment on Professor Feigl’s Mind-Body Identity Thesis”, in Paul K[arl] Feyerabend, Grover Maxwell, editors, Mind, Matter, and Method: Essays in Philosophy and Science in Honor of Herbert Feigl, Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, →LCCN, page 124:
- On the evidence stated, it would seem imparsimonious to postulate such enduring continuants as psychoids.
- 1977, William P. Banks, “Encoding and Processing of Symbolic Information in Comparative Judgments”, in Gordon H. Bower, editor, The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, volume 11, Academic Press, →LCCN, section IV (Semantic-Coding Model), page 149:
- While this model has some attractive features, it seems to me to give an account of the semantic-congruity effect that is, at the least, terribly imparsimonious.
- 1987, Kent Bailey, “The Paleopsychology of Pathological Processes”, in Human Paleopsychology: Applications To Aggression and Patholoqical Processes, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., section “Definitions and Theory”, page 426:
- This does not mean, however, that entirely new characters evolved each time the environment changed and placed new adaptive demands on the human organism—this would be extremely imparsimonious and inefficient.