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CONCISENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does conciseness mean?
• CONCISENESS (noun)
The noun CONCISENESS has 1 sense:
1. terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words
Familiarity information: CONCISENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
conciseness; concision; pithiness; succinctness
Hypernyms ("conciseness" is a kind of...):
terseness (a neatly short and concise expressive style)
Derivation:
concise (expressing much in few words)
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