Synonyms of terseness

terseness

noun

as in concision

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 & Similar Words

• concision
• conciseness
• shortness
• compactness
• crispness
• brevity
• succinctness
• bluntness
• pithiness
• sententiousness
• abruptness
• briefness
• brusqueness
• curtness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• verbosity
• prolixity
• wordiness
• diffuseness
• long-windedness
• redundancy
• repetitiousness
• repetitiveness
• tautology
• periphrasis
• pleonasm

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of terseness

His old-fashioned movie-star charisma has a bracing cut-the-crap terseness. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 17 July 2026

What mattered more than his terseness was that Norris was allowed to land a few meaningful blows against the usually untouchable Lee, who stars as Tang Lung, a fighter summoned to defend a restaurant owner menaced by a crime boss. — Chris Klimek, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026

Assisted by the low, somber strings of Oliver Coates’ score and the clean, crisp brightness of Judith Kaufmann’s lensing, Volpe directs with much the same simplicity and moderation, toward a pitch-perfect ending of wholly disarming terseness and economy. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Jan. 2026