conciseness

conciseness
conciseness (n.) "expression of much in few words," 1650s, from CONCISE (Cf. concise) + -NESS (Cf. -ness).
[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. [Fowler]

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  • Conciseness — Con*cise ness, n. The quality of being concise. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Conciseness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Conciseness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 conciseness conciseness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 brevity brevity => the soul of wit, the soul of wit laconism Sgm: N 1 Tacitus Tacitus Sgm: N 1 ellipsis ellipsis …   English dictionary for students

  • Conciseness — Wikipedia does not have an encyclopedia article for Conciseness (search results). You may want to read Wiktionary s entry on concise instead.wiktionary:Special:Search/concise …   Wikipedia

  • conciseness — concise ► ADJECTIVE ▪ giving a lot of information clearly and in few words. DERIVATIVES concisely adverb conciseness noun concision noun. ORIGIN Latin concisus cut up, cut down …   English terms dictionary

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  • conciseness — noun see concise …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • conciseness — /keuhn suys nis/, n. the quality of being concise. [1650 60; CONCISE + NESS] Syn. terseness, pithiness. See brevity. * * * …   Universalium

  • conciseness — noun The property of being concise, succinctness. Syn: concision, brevity, succinctness, terseness …   Wiktionary

  • conciseness — con cise·ness || nɪs n. quality of being brief and comprehensive, succinctness …   English contemporary dictionary

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