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Pithiness

noun
1.
Terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words.  Synonyms: conciseness, concision, succinctness.






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"Pithiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... have no hesitation in giving him the palm over all the hymnists of every language, and of every time. Turn to the 148th psalm in Brady and Tate's version. Have such conceptions been ever before expressed? Their version of the 15th psalm is more to be esteemed for its pithiness than its poetry. Even Sternhold, the leaden Sternhold, kindles, in a single instance, with the sublimity of his original, and expresses the majesty of God descending on the earth, in terms not unworthy ...
— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson



Words linked to "Pithiness" :   pithy, terseness



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