Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
Division (II) Communication of Ideas
Section III. Means of Communicating Ideas
Various Qualities of Style

572. Conciseness.

   NOUN:CONCISENESS &c. adj.; brevity, “the soul of wit,” laconicism or laconism; ellipsis; syncope; abridgment (shortening) [See Shortness]; compression [See Contraction]; epitome [See Compendium]; monostich; Spartans; Tacitus.
  PORTMANTEAU-WORD [Lewis Carroll]; brunch [breakfast+lunch], squarson [squire+parson]; slithy, adj. [slimy+lithe], torrible, adj. [torrid+horrible], crowzy, adj. [crowded+cozy].
   VERB:BE CONCISE &c. adj.; telescope, laconize; condense [See Contraction]; abridge [See Shortness]; abstract [See Compendium]; come to the point.
   ADJECTIVE:CONCISE, brief, short, terse, close; to the point, exact; neat, compact; compressed, condensed, pointed; laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary; pregnant; compendious (compendium) [See Compendium]; succinct; elliptical, epigrammatic, crisp; sententious.
   ADVERB:CONCISELY &c. adj.; briefly, summarily; in brief, in short, in a word, in few words; for the sake of brevity, for shortness’ sake; to come to the point, to make a long story short, to cut the matter short, to be brief; it comes to this, the long and short of it is, the gist is.
   QUOTATION:Brevis esse laboro obscurus fio.—Horace