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[ UK /kənsˈɪʒən/ ]
NOUN
  1. terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words

How To Use concision In A Sentence

  • Pärt has written many a cappella works for several voices or chorus, and this new one, apart from its concision, is typical.
  • It's the band's first album on ATO, the label founded partly by Dave Matthews, and its 10 tracks come stamped with pop concision. NYT > Home Page
  • The pieces were expertly crafted and shaped with epigrammatic concision (none longer than five minutes). Times, Sunday Times
  • · I hardly ever do bullet points – you know concision is not my greatest suit, and they seem to have made the formatting go crazy. Random Bullets « Tales from the Reading Room
  • I have argued this for months, but rarely with such concisions.
  • It might have been much longer but that she'd had practice in the craft of concision preparing plot summaries for studios. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
  • The gift of her language, therefore, is not one of exfoliation, but of continual scission and concision.
  • The merit of his _Maximes_ as examples of style -- a style which may be described as lapidary -- is incomparable; it is impossible to say more, or to say it more adequately, in little; but one wearies in the end of the monotony of an idea unalterably applied, of unqualified brilliance, of unrelieved concision; we anticipate our surprise, and its purpose is defeated. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
  • Again and again in the exhibition, one feels that Conner not only got there first but did so with welcome concision, intensity and forthrightness.
  • Certainly, the canonic writing of the first movement, the contrapuntally distinct lines of the second, and the thematic concision of both appear less evident in the last two movements.
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