Crossword clues for conciseness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conciseness \Con*cise"ness\, n. The quality of being concise.
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 the reader to stop & think whether he knows its meaning.
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Wiktionary
n. The property of being concise, succinctness.
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.