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Also known as conciseness, brevity, laconicism, terseness, concise, laconic, terse, succinctness

In common usage and linguistics, concision (also called conciseness, succinctness, terseness, brevity, or laconicism) is a communication principle of eliminating redundancy, generally achieved by using as few words as possible in a sentence while preserving its meaning. More generally, it is achieved through the omission of parts that impart information that was already given, that is obvious or that is irrelevant. Outside of linguistics, a message may be similarly "dense" in other forms of communication.

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quality
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facet of
language
opposite of
redundancy
partially coincident with
parsimony
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