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Concision

noun
1.
Terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words.  Synonyms: conciseness, pithiness, succinctness.






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"Concision" Quotes from Famous Books



... nothing of his perusal of Montaigne. Rather it suggests a return from the method of the revised HAMLET, with its play of reverie, to the more strictly dramatic method of the chronicle histories, though with a new energy and concision of presentment. The real clue to Montaigne's influence on Shakspere beyond HAMLET, as we have seen, lies not in the Roman plays, ...
— Montaigne and Shakspere • John M. Robertson

... SHAW-LEFEVRE, sternly! "it is preaching; why cannot a man be concise? Concision, if I may coin a word, is the soul of argument. My old friend DIZZY used to say to me, 'SHAW, what I admire about LEFEVRE is his terseness. If you want a man to say in twenty minutes everything that, from his point of view, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, May 24, 1890 • Various

... a larger number of people than any other language except English. But Russian is so unlike the Latin and Teutonic tongues, used by the majority of European peoples; it is so complicated, so difficult to acquire, and, moreover, so lacking in concision that it has never ...
— The Task of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis



Words linked to "Concision" :   terseness, pithiness, conciseness, succinctness



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