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Terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words
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conciseness
Word definitions for conciseness in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The property of being concise, succinctness.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conciseness \Con*cise"ness\, n. The quality of being concise.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"expression of much in few words," 1650s, from concise + -ness .\n\n[Conciseness] is the English word familiar to the ordinary man: concision is the LITERARY CRITIC'S WORD, more recent in English, used by writers under French influence & often requiring ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words [syn: concision , pithiness , succinctness ]
Usage examples of conciseness.
These writers passed with the most artful conciseness over the misfortunes of the nation, celebrated its successful valor, and adorned the triumph with many Asiatic trophies, that more properly belonged to the people of Scythia.
The expressive conciseness of his descriptions has served to exercise the diligence of innumerable antiquarians, and to excite the genius and penetration of the philosophic historians of our own times.