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Succinctness

noun

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

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... be formed of the correctness of the writer's views, it is necessary to take to pieces this skilful fabric, and to bring the parts together in a different connection and with greater succinctness, following out each doctrine to its inevitable, but most remote, conclusions, so as to obtain a just idea of the position in which we should be placed by the acceptance of the theory as a whole. For obvious reasons, the author has not chosen to ...

— A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' • Francis Bowen

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Words linked to "Succinctness" : pithiness, succinct, concision, terseness