Words and phrases that have a meaning related to terseness:  (132 results)
Often used in the same context:
prolixity, concision, facetiousness, succinctness, wordiness, pithiness, indirectness, inarticulateness, staginess, profundity, incomprehensibility, allusiveness, circumlocution, sarcasms, impassivity, nabokovian, whimsicality, prose, literalness, poeticism, wryness, infelicities, punctiliousness, politesse, sparseness, ruefulness, acerbity, archness, brevity, grandiloquence, hemingwayesque, plainness, triteness, cantankerousness, didacticism, artlessness, spareness, interrogative, obtuseness, orotund, glibness, wittedness, imperturbability, articulateness, curtness, declarative sentence, factuality, ambiguousness, objective correlative, panegyric, taciturnity, mozartian, peevishness, journalese, unintelligibility, incredulousness, loquacity, inscrutability, pedantry, chiasmus, ineloquent, insubstantiality, affectless, abstractness, billet doux, conciseness, obliqueness, clownishness, italicizing, suavity, fastidiousness, stolidity, lucidity, comprehensibility, unconventionality, drollness, concreteness, dandyism, indirection, primness, woodenness, versification, slyness, verbosity, impersonality, rotundity, weightiness, good naturedness, mot juste, windiness, aptness, sombreness, archaisms, geniality, metafiction, forwardness, inelegance, poesy, pompousness, plaintiveness, eloquence, ingenuousness, boldness, clearness, incisiveness, keenness, lightness, thoroughness, neatness, quickness, steadiness, acuteness, compactness, directness, perspicuity, tact, vivacity
More specific:
crispness, laconicism, laconism
More general:
expressive style, style
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— Adjectives for terseness: epigrammatic, such, usual, extreme, characteristic, admirable, very, singular, customary, greater, certain, more...

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