单词 | succinctness |
释义 | succinctnessn. 1. The quality or condition of being succinct; conciseness. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > [noun] fastness?a1200 compendiousness1398 short speaking14.. shortness?c1450 brevity1509 briefness1530 pithiness1557 laconism1570 succinctness1609 parsimony1650 laconicism1656 nexility1656 syntomy1656 conciseness1659 closeness1712 compendiosity1727 pressness1728 abruptness1731 concision1774 laconicalness1830 compactness1841 terseness1864 Spartanhood1880 Spartanism1880 brachylogy1882–3 condensity1885 1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica To Rdrs. I haue taskt my selfe to such succinctnesse and breuity, that [etc.] 1644 K. Digby Two Treat. ii. Pref. 352 To serue for conueniency and succinctenesse of discourse. 1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 174 Brevity, and Succinctness of Speech, is that, which in Philosophy or Speculation we call Maxim, and First Principle. 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. v. 279 John Hamilton.. states with much succinctness..a favorite charge of that day against Knox. 1884 Athenæum 11 Oct. 459/3 A critic is always loth to quarrel with succinctness. 2. The condition of being close-fitting or without fullness. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > [noun] > qualities of disguisinessc1386 threadbareness1530 lustinessa1547 tricksinessc1550 niceness1559 trickness1600 quaintness1603 fineness1667 overdress1781 fullness1792 succinctness1818 dowdiness1843 dowdyism1859 gauziness1873 floppiness1892 1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 3 277 Grave academics..started forth in the unwonted and unnatural succinctness of the sagum. 1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. lix. 261 He still wore the dress of a jockey of the green faction, and its succinctness revealed his thin legs and protuberant person. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1609 |
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