Richard A. O'Keefe
ok at cs.otago.ac.nz
Tue Apr 8 21:49:14 EDT 2008
On 8 Apr 2008, at 7:15 am, Dan Weston wrote:
>  Yes, I know that "conciseness" is the much more common and
> accepted word for this, but if we can say "precision", "decision",
> and "incision", then it seems foolish to not also use "concision". I
> will henceforth take on this quixotic quest to promote the use of
Please don't. There is already an English word "concision" that means
something quite different. To quote the OED:
"The action of cutting to pieces or cutting away; mutilation."
To be honest, sense 3 in the OED is exactly what you want, but why take
the risk of confusing people? And if you really don't like
what's wrong with "brevity"?
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