Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or property of being terse; neatness of style; compactness; conciseness; brevity.
- noun Shortness.
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- noun The characteristic of being
terse .
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- noun a neatly short and concise expressive style
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Examples
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All were well disciplined in terseness and time-saving.
CHAPTER IV 2010
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Approaches will have to be found to compensate for terseness is a language while keeping it understandable.
Reflective Surface - More on the evolution of programming languages 2003
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All were well disciplined in terseness and time-saving.
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It's rather difficult to put a different spin on all that "terseness" out of Bill, Greg - at least for me.
Rendell On Bill Clinton's Alleged Hard Feelings Towards Obama: "Get Over It," "Shake It Off" 2009
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He and his Oxford brother, living as they did in constant and free interchange of thought on questions of philosophy and literature and art; delighting, each of them, in the epigrammatic terseness which is the charm of the 'Pensees' of Pascal, and the 'Caractères' of La
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Chandler's detective Philip Marlowe would have understood the terseness of tweeting, though he would have had trouble making a story out of "erratic driving in Tameside", "drunken man urinating in public car park in Oldham: arrested"; or "car left garage without paying for petrol in Bury".
Bobbies on the tweet - police go online Stephen Bates 2010
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I believe Fortescue underscores that the historic Roman rite (i.e. today's extraordinary form) ... is characterized by an elegant terseness.
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Seeing the president was not about to back off, Putin replied with “military terseness” that he would work wherever Yeltsin assigned him.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Seeing the president was not about to back off, Putin replied with “military terseness” that he would work wherever Yeltsin assigned him.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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So he focused his gaze on those in the younger generation who spoke with “military terseness,” looking for one who could strengthen the state but would also continue his reforms.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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