Meaning & use
Concisions
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Instances or expressions of brevity and economical use of words.
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The editor praised the report's concisions, noting how much ground it covered in so few pages.
Years of writing headlines had trained her in the kind of concisions that lose none of the meaning.
A note on using this word
The singular "concision" is far more common than the plural; "concisions" usually appears when a writer refers to several specific instances of concise expression.
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brevitiescompressions
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verbositieswordiness
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