conciseness
Saying more, less
Conciseness is the quality of expressing something in few words without sacrificing clarity.
It's the opposite of verbosity or wordiness: The editor praised the conciseness of her prose.
Good conciseness trims fat while keeping meaning intact—not just brevity for its own sake, but efficiency in communication.
Brief to bluntness
- laconicBrief in expression
- pithyConcise and forceful
- succinctExpressed with minimal words
- compactTightly packed together
condensed · crisp · snappy · telegraphic · abridged · synopsis · summary · compendium
Mentally sharp and comprehensible
- coherentLogically connected throughout
- clear-cutPlainly evident, unmistakable
- unambiguousAllowing single interpretation only
- straightforwardClear and uncomplicated
plain · simple · direct · transparent · intelligible · accessible · unpretentious · streamlined
terse
Brief to bluntness
compact · condensed · crisp · snappy · telegraphic · abridged · synopsis · summary · compendium · epitome
lucid
Mentally sharp and comprehensible
- coherentLogically connected throughout
- clear-cutPlainly evident, unmistakable
- unambiguousAllowing single interpretation only
straightforward · plain · simple · direct · transparent · intelligible · accessible · unpretentious · streamlined · focused
exact
Perfectly correct, no deviation
accurate · targeted · deliberate · measured · calculated · apt · fitting · incisive · surgical · pinpoint
- journalismreporters, interview, editors, student editors, school paper
- brevitybrevity, succinct, terse, pithy, laconic
- Get to the Pointcut to the chase, bottom line, in a nutshell, spit it out, long story short
- verbal qualitieseloquence, fluency, articulate, clarity, coherence
- witwit, witticism, quip, cleverness, repartee
- minimalismminimalism, declutter, decluttering, simplicity, less is more
concisenessverbosity
Unnecessary word excess
wordiness · long-windedness · prolixity · verboseness · garrulousness
concisenessrambling
Long-winded and unfocused
diffuseness · discursiveness · meandering · windiness · circuitousness