concision means synonym of conciseness (“brevity or terseness”). It carries an Arena rating of 1574, earned across 44 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, concision ranks #1,849 of 17,126 for Most Elegant Words, #6,217 of 17,127 for Words That Escaped Their Books, #6,262 of 17,132 for Most Betrayed by Its Sound, #8,797 of 17,134 for Most Malleable Words.
concision is pronounced /kənˈsɪʒən/.
Why “concision” is a great word
CONCISION — [Noun] The quality of being concise; brevity and economy in expression. Borrowed from French concision (16th century), from Latin concīsiōnem (stem concīsiō), from concīsus (past participle of concīdere, 'to cut up, cut to pieces'), from con- (intensive) + caedere ('to cut'). Unlike "conciseness," its more common and plainer sibling, or "terseness," which implies a brusque or curt manner, concision is the art of surgical removal—the precise excision of the superfluous. It is the chisel removing everything that is not the statue, the editor's decisive strike through a florid clause, the clean break of a necessary farewell. A discipline born from cutting, its ideal form leaves not a scar, only the absence of what never needed to be there.
Etymology
Borrowed from French concision, from Latin concisiō(n).
noun
- Synonym of conciseness (“brevity or terseness”).
- A form of media censorship where discussions are limited in topics on the basis of broadcast time allotments.
- A cutting off; a division; a schism or faction.e.g.“those of the Concision who made it” — 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
- Mutilation.
- penile mutilation, emasculation (used as a polemical term in Paul's epistles)
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