conciseness

Roget category 572

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#572. Conciseness

noun

conciseness etc. adj. — brevity, the soul of wit," laconism^† — Tacitus — ellipsis — syncope — abridgment etc. (shortening) 201 — compression etc. 195 — epitome etc. 596 — monostich^† — brunch word, portmanteau word.

verb

be concise etc. adj. — condense etc. 195 — abridge etc. 201 — abstract etc. 596 — come to the point.

adjective

concise, brief, short, terse, close — to the point, exact — neat, compact — compressed, condensed, pointed — laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary — pregnant — compendious etc. (compendium) 596 — succinct — elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp — sententious.

adverb

concisely etc. adj. — briefly, summarily — in brief, in short, in a word, in a few words — for shortness sake — to come to the point, to make a long story short, to cut the matter short, to be brief — it comes to this, the long and the short of it is.

phrase

brevis esse laboro obscurus fio [Lat.] [Horace].

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