Thesaurus:succinctness

Thesaurus

succinctness

English

Noun

Sense: the quality of using few words to express meaning

Synonyms

• brevity
• briefness
• conciseness
• concision (rare)
• laconicalness
• laconicism
• laconicity
• laconism
• succinctness
• terseness

Antonyms

• circumlocution
• verbiage
• verbosity    [⇒ thesaurus]
• wordiness
• wordage

Various

• clarity
• obfuscation
• obliqueness
• obliquity
• opacity
• opaqueness
• perspicuity
• readability

See also

• Thesaurus:concise
• Thesaurus:short

Further reading

• “572. conciseness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “succinctness” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.