concision
pronunciation
How to pronounce concision in British English:
UK [kən'sɪʒn]
How to pronounce concision in American English:
US [kən'sɪʒn]
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- Noun:
- terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words
Word Origin
- concision (n.)
- late 14c., "cutting away, mutilation," also, from 16c., "circumcision," from Latin concisionem "a separation into divisions," literally "a cutting up," noun of action from past participle stem of concidere "to cut up" (see concise). From 18c. it began to be used in the sense of conciseness (q.v.).
Example
- 1. Concision is not his watchword .
- 2. Rewarding concision first will encourage students to be economical and innovative with language .
- 3. That said , the relative concision of funeral and neon bible didn 't allow for a whole lot of wiggle room .
- 4. A reviewer said about my third book , a collection of linked stories , that if I kept going in this direction ( i.e. , toward concision ) , I 'd wind up writing books composed of one very beautiful word .