concision

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (1)  · 
“
Professional writing experience isn't necessary (though it doesn't hurt), but what we really care about is that you can write skillfully about gadgets with wit, concision, and authority.

View all »
Definitions (7)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (2)

  1. noun The state or quality of being concise: "a role made . . . dramatically accessible by the concision of the form” (George Steiner).
  2. noun Archaic A cutting apart or off.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (3)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • It is a beautiful, tragic piece about a man living with the emotional and physical fallout of his wife's Alzheimer's diseases in its concision, and the heartbreakingly commonplace rendering of mingled love and despair, "Voyager" brings to mind John Bayley's Elegy for Iris. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 03 - September 1999
  • In its dramatic concision, its complex psychological significance, and its unique, if to unaccustomed ears somewhat barbaric, poetic beauty, “Porphyria” is still more remarkable. —  Life of Robert Browning
  • His propensity to concision or condensation was a peculiar trait in his mind. —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2.
  • Bluntness without concision (a long blunt instrument is called a 'whip'). —  Wax Banks
  • Sometimes his rushed prose cries out for a Maxwell Perkins with his scalpel of concision, limit, and shape, but one is never not in the presence of exuberant language. —  California Literary Review
More examples »
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 86 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. = French concision = Provencal concisio = Spanish concision = Portuguese concisão = Italian concisione, conciseness, from Late Latin concisio(n-), a cutting to pieces, a mutilation, separation, from concidere, cut off: see concise.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/kənˈsɪzhən/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

fallible · Kind · mushed · vicarious · lurker

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich