You can speak concisely, or prefer concise writing, but not quite with concision. I prefer conciseness? Conciquity? Concisement? Why is there no noun for this word??

    • @AbouBenAdhem
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      241 year ago

      Concision is a regular and unexceptional word, but I think brevity has a slightly different connotation: “concision” implies that you’ve carefully phrased things to convey the most information in the fewest words, while “brevity” can imply that you’ve just left stuff out.

      • Rhynoplaz
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        31 year ago

        I miss that rug. Really tied the room together.

    • Mechanismatic
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      11 year ago

      Concision seems like it should be a word for that which is made concise rather than the brevity itself. An incision is the cut made by incising.

      • @fubo
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        11 year ago

        Incision can also be the practice of incising, but we don’t need that word very much.

  • @[email protected]
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    111 year ago

    Concision is the right word, if speaking with a highly educated audience; if speaking with a less educated audience, perhaps “succinctness” or “efficient clarity” would be better understood, even if not conveying all of the connotations of concision.

    • @ChicoSuave
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      11 year ago

      That’s a conflation of concise and divisive.

      • @pixeltree
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        11 year ago

        Ah I knew it wasn’t a real word but not why it felt right, that’s it right there. Neato

  • Dr. Coomer
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    31 year ago

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  • BananaPeal
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    110 months ago

    I’m no expert, but didn’t you just use it as a noun in the post title?