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terseness

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Synonyms and Antonyms of terseness

the quality or state of being marked by or using only few words to convey much meaning

the terseness of my replies simply meant that I was too busy to talk at that time

Synonyms of terseness

brevity, briefness, compactness, conciseness, concision, crispness, pithiness, sententiousness, succinctness

Words Related to terseness

abruptness, bluntness, brusqueness, curtness, shortness

Near Antonyms of terseness

periphrasis, pleonasm, redundancy, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, tautology

Antonyms of terseness

diffuseness, long-windedness, prolixity, verbosity, wordiness

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