conciseness

English

Etymology

concise +‎ -ness

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈsaɪsnəs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

conciseness (uncountable)

1. The property of being concise; succinctness.
   • 1763, James Boswell, edited by Gordon Turnbull, London Journal 1762-1763, Penguin, published 2014, page 231:

     I shall endeavour to keep it with as much conciseness as possible.

Synonyms

• concision, brevity, succinctness, terseness; see also Thesaurus:succinctness

Translations

property of being concise

• Bulgarian: краткост (bg) f (kratkost), стегнатост (bg) f (stegnatost)
• Catalan: concisió f
• Czech: stručnost f
• Esperanto: koncizeco
• French: concision (fr) f
• Galician: concisión (gl) f
• German: Bündigkeit f, Gedrängtheit f (figurative), Knappheit (de) f, Kürze (de) f, Prägnanz f
• Greek: λακωνικότητα (el) f (lakonikótita)
• Irish: achomaireacht f
• Italian: concisione (it) f, stringatezza (it) f
• Occitan: concision f
• Russian: кра́ткость (ru) f (krátkostʹ)
• Spanish: concisión (es) f
• Turkish: mucezlik (obsolescent), özlülük
• Ukrainian: сти́слість f (stýslistʹ)