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terseness
noun
(terse-ness)
a neatly short and concise expressive style
Antonyms:
verboseness
,
Words Related to
terseness
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epigrammatic
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concision
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succinctness
,
brevity
,
prolixity
,
pithiness
,
conciseness
,
wordiness
,
plainness
,
facetiousness
,
sparseness
,
allusiveness
,
profundity
,
prose
,
verbosity
,
articulateness
,
eloquence
,
declarative sentence
,
triteness
,
lucidity
,
curtness
,
comprehensibility
,
suavity
,
versification
,
mot juste
,
inelegance
,
indirectness
,
inarticulateness
,
staginess
,
incomprehensibility
,
circumlocution
,
sarcasms
,
impassivity
,
nabokovian
,
whimsicality
,
literalness
,
poeticism
,
wryness
,
infelicities
,
punctiliousness
,
politesse
,
ruefulness
,
acerbity
,
archness
,
grandiloquence
,
hemingwayesque
,
cantankerousness
,
didacticism
,
artlessness
,
spareness
,
obtuseness
,
orotund
,
glibness
,
wittedness
,
imperturbability
,
factuality
,
ambiguousness
,
objective correlative
,
panegyric
,
taciturnity
,
mozartian
,
peevishness
,
journalese
,
unintelligibility
,
incredulousness
,
loquacity
,
inscrutability
,
pedantry
,
chiasmus
,
insubstantiality
,
affectless
,
abstractness
,
billet doux
,
obliqueness
,
clownishness
,
italicizing
,
fastidiousness
,
stolidity
,
unconventionality
,
drollness
,
concreteness
,
dandyism
,
indirection
,
primness
,
woodenness
,
slyness
,
impersonality
,
rotundity
,
weightiness
,
good naturedness
,
windiness
,
aptness
,
sombreness
,
archaisms
,
geniality
,
metafiction
,
forwardness
,
poesy
,
pompousness
,
plaintiveness
,
terseness
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