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If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.
Helen Vendler

Meaning of "concision" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CONCISION

concision  [kənˈsɪʒən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONCISION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Concision is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CONCISION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Concision

Concision, or brevity, is the art and practice of using no more words than necessary to convey an idea. It aims to improve the effectiveness of communication by eliminating redundancy without omitting important information. Concision has been described as one of the elementary principles of writing.

Definition of concision in the English dictionary

The definition of concision in the dictionary is the quality of being concise; brevity; terseness.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONCISION


abscission
æbˈsɪʒən
circumcision
ˌsɜːkəmˈsɪʒən
decision
dɪˈsɪʒən
discission
dɪsˈsɪʒən
division
dɪˈvɪʒən
excision
ɛkˈsɪʒən
imprecision
ˌɪmprɪˈsɪʒən
incision
ɪnˈsɪʒən
indecision
ˌɪndɪˈsɪʒən
nondecision
ˌnɒndɪˈsɪʒən
occasion
əˈkeɪʒən
precisian
prɪˈsɪʒən
precision
prɪˈsɪʒən
recision
rɪˈsɪʒən
rescission
rɪˈsɪʒən
subdecision
ˌsʌbdɪˈsɪʒən
subincision
ˌsʌbɪnˈsɪʒən
television
ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən
ultraprecision
ˌʌltrəprɪˈsɪʒən
uncircumcision
ˌʌnsɜːkəmˈsɪʒən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONCISION

conciliable
conciliar
conciliarly
conciliary
conciliate
conciliation
conciliative
conciliator
conciliatorily
conciliatoriness
conciliatory
concinnities
concinnity
concinnous
concipiency
concipient
concise
concisely
conciseness
conclamation

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONCISION

cable television
cell division
collision
colour television
commission
double vision
educational television
envision
Eurovision
field of vision
infantry division
interactive television
long division
night vision
night-vision
panzer division
provision
revision
satellite television
subdivision
supervision

Synonyms and antonyms of concision in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «concision» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONCISION

Find out the translation of concision to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of concision from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «concision» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

简洁
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

concisión
570 millions of speakers

English

concision
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

संक्षिप्ति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الإيجاز
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

краткость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

concisão
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সংক্ষিপ্ত রুপ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

concision
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penentuan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Präzision
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

簡潔さ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

간결
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Concision
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự giản lược
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுருக்கம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

संक्षेप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

concision
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

concisione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zwięzłość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

стислість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

concizie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συντομίας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

versnyding
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

concision
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

concision
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of concision

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONCISION»

The term «concision» is quite widely used and occupies the 54.217 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONCISION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about concision

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2 QUOTES WITH «CONCISION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word concision.
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Ron Rash
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.
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Helen Vendler
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONCISION»

Discover the use of concision in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to concision and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Chomsky on Democracy and Education
down he said something which, in fact, has an element of truth to it: "Chomsky lacks concision." Concision means you have to be able to say things between two commercials. Now, that's a structural property of our media — a very important ...
Noam Chomsky, Carlos Peregrín Otero, 2003
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Engineers' Guide to Technical Writing
Concision. A concise document contains no more words than necessary. Concision is an important attribute of technical writing because readers want to be informed in the fewest possible words. Readers determine the success of a document, ...
Kenneth G. Budinski, 2001
3
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
L. Emerson CONCISION. A general term for lexical compression, concentration, and economy, designed to achieve “maximum efficiency of expression” (Pound  ). Concision is often associated with compact forms— *sonnet, *haiku (see ...
Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, 2012
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition
L. Emerson CONCISION. A general term for lexical compression, concentration, and economy, designed to achieve “maximum efficiency of expression” (Pound  ). Concision is often associated with compact forms— *sonnet, *haiku (see ...
Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, 2012
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The Works
But this St. Paul authorizeth in his own practice, and the Holy Ghost in him, that in elegant language, he incorporates, and invests sound and important doctrine; for, though he choose words of musical sound, circumcision and concision, yet it ...
John Donne, Henry Alford, 1839
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The works of John Donne
But this St. Paul authorizeth in his own practice, and the Holy Ghost in him, that in elegant language, he incorporates, and invests sound and important doctrine ; for , though he choose words of musical sound, circumcision and concision, yet it ...
John Donne, Henry Alford, 1839
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The works of John Donne. With a memoir by H. Alford
But this St. Paul authorizeth in his own practice, and the Holy Ghost in him, that in elegant language, he incorporates, and invests sound and important doctrine ; for , though he choose words of musical sound, circumcision and concision, yet it ...
John Donne, Henry Alford, 1839
8
The New Englander
elements to Christ, a perfect right to the privileges of the Christian church. Thus, whether we take the contrast which the Apostle has instituted between the concision and the circumcision, or the state of things at the time he wrote, as the basis of ...
9
Textual Sources for the Study of Islam
(1) Concision Concision is the shortening of a portion of speech without disturbing the meaning. When it is possible either to express a given meaning with many words or to express it with few words, expressing it with fewer words is concision.
Andrew Rippin, Jan Knappert, 1986
10
New Englander and Yale Review
elements to Christ, a perfect right to the privileges of the Christian church. Thus, whether we take the contrast which the Apostle has instituted between the concision and the circumcision, or the state of things at the time he wrote, as the basis of ...
Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, 1846

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONCISION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term concision is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Art of Concision: A Look at Haiku
Many English speakers first encounter the haiku in school, learning that it is a poem of 17 syllables, divided into lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables. «Nippon.com, Jul 15»
2
Madison Broad Stays Golden At Provincials
She did get hit in the head in the warm- ups and had to be taken out of the pool as she was watched for a concision; no signs of one yet. «Chatham-Kent Sports Network, Jul 15»
3
Book Review: The Politics of Third Wave Feminisms: Neoliberalism …
... and discrepancies between groups of feminists, producing a narrative that is commendable in its clarity and concision, but never patronising. «USAPP American Politics and Policy, Jul 15»
4
The boy who rebuilt the sun on earth
Clynes's outline of nuclear fission versus fusion, for instance, is a model of clarity and concision. I suspect that the social difficulties that ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
5
Beyond DayZ: Dean Hall on Early Access, self-funding, and the next …
... into Ion, and even how to bring a little civilization to the survival game genre. Note: This interview has been edited for clarity and concision. «Polygon, Jul 15»
6
Radioactivity: Silent Kill
Silent Kill is a statement of hardened formal resolve. Radioactivity remains committed to its fundamental assets: restraint, concision, guttersnipe ... «Paste Magazine, Jun 15»
7
Vince Staples pushes buttons on his exhilarating double album
... full-length record a double album seem that much more audacious, but even his take on the double album is a model of concision: Each disc ... «A.V. Club, Jun 15»
8
Music review: Beirut makes music, not talk
... of history of the development of Afro-Cuban music. The band specializes in dispatching complex arrangements with incision and concision. «Ottawa Citizen, Jun 15»
9
Slow West film review: a work of rare purity, directness and concision
It's a work of rare purity, directness and concision — a pity that it's lumbered with that slightly deceptive, off-putting title. Slow it's not. It's written ... «Evening Standard, Jun 15»
10
Review: BIG GAME, A Totally Fresh Genre Film
The premise for Big Game is stunning in its concision - a kid is off on his coming-of-age hunting trip when Air Force One is downed and the ... «TwitchFilm, Jun 15»

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