concision
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7.7
- noun
- /kənˈsɪʒən/
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concisión
- The issues that receive more expansive and varied consideration in the fiction are enunciated, probed, and explored with nuanced concision in the prose poems.
- clarity and concision
I think he's my favorite and, and Flaubert, you know, that kind of concision.
- I think he's my favorite and, and Flaubert, you know, that kind of concision.
- So it's a fine example of the power of restraint and the beauty of concision.
Examples
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So, for the future, yes, I will think more about concision and clarity.
Blog text (13) -
The importance of concision is clear: other things being equal, shorter code is easier to read, easier to write, and easier to maintain.
Academic text (2011) -
Given the demands for concision, though, I think you go wrong or oversimplify on a number of points.
Blog text (18) -
Fundamentally, the C# culture doesn't think that concision is a dirty word.
Blog text (30) -
Wikipedia, which ranks well for a wide variety of specialized subject areas, is improving web concision.
Academic text (2007) -
Perhaps the easiest of these advantages to demonstrate concretely is that of concision.
Academic text (2011) -
The writing of portraits requires great verbal concision and understanding of the subject in order to render a character precisely in the fewest pages.
Academic text (1994) -
During training, personnel were also given some reference material about understanding text-speak—such as the use of 'u' to mean 'you' or '2nite' to mean 'tonight'—and were reminded to practice concision in their text-based responses.
Academic text (2014) -
The author's concision made the article easy to read and understand.
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In her speech, the concision of her main points kept the audience engaged.
Synonyms
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5.3
Using few words when speaking or writing
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5.5
Saying something clearly with few words
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6.7
Saying a lot with very few words
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6.3
The quality of expressing ideas clearly using few words
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7.7
A way of saying much in very few words
Using only a few words to say something important
A short time or using few words
Antonyms
How Concise
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Concision comes from the Latin root caedere, which means 'to cut', and is closely related to the word concise. So think of an editor cutting away extra words; concision is the quality of saying a lot with very few words.