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conciseness

Noun

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The quality of being concise.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. Hosea Ballou

Conciseness is underrated. Sarah Dessen

In art, conciseness is both a necessity and a luxury; a concise man provokes thought, a wordy man provokes boredom; always move towards conciseness. In the figure, look for the main light and the main shadow, the rest will come of itself: often, it amounts to very little. Édouard Manet

My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself. Yusef Komunyakaa

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. Samuel Johnson

Nothing is more certain than that much of the force, As well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends on their conciseness. Alexander Pope

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