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Definition of Succinctness
1. Noun. Terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words.
Generic synonyms: Terseness
Derivative terms: Concise, Pithy, Succinct
Definition of Succinctness
1. Noun. The property of being succinct, conciseness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Succinctness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Succinctness
Literary usage of Succinctness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bench and Bar of Wisconsin: History and Biography, with Portrait by Parker McCobb Reed (1882)
"Mr. Conover's work has also been distinguished by excellent judgment, eminent
clearness, and succinctness of recital, and the accurate and exhaustive ..."
2. The Bench and Bar of Wisconsin: History and Biography, with Portrait by Parker McCobb Reed (1882)
"Mr. Conover's work has also been distinguished by excellent judgment, eminent
clearness, and succinctness of recital, and the accurate and exhaustive ..."
3. Brazil, the River Plate, and the Falkland Islands: With the Cape Horn Route by William Hadfield (1854)
"Books on Brazil should be in Mediam Viam for the pre sent route, avoiding the
Scylla of extreme succinctness and the Charybdis of needless dif- ..."
4. Life and Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, from 1751 to by Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound Minto (1874)
"but as it is given with more succinctness and less formality in his private
correspondence with Mr. Wickham and with Lord Carysfort His Majesty's Minister ..."
5. The Bookman (1914)
"One way of attaining this crispness and succinctness is to catch life at a crisis
and to exhibit the culminating points — or, as Mr. Archer says in a later ..."
6. Crabb's English Synonyms by George Crabb (1917)
"We may term a stick, a letter, or a discourse short; but we speak of brevity only
in regard to the mode of speech; conciseness and succinctness as to the ..."
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