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UK
/kənsˈɪʒən/
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NOUN
- 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.