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@lemmy.world
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      1 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.

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      1 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.