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The art of saying one thing instead of three, and meaning it more.
means The quality of expressing something fully using as few words as possible, with nothing important left out.
from From Latin concisus, 'cut short' or 'cut into pieces' — past participle of concidere, from com- ('together, thoroughly') plus caedere ('to cut'). The same caedere gives English words like 'scissors' and 'incision.' So conciseness is literally language that's been trimmed down, cut to size — the verbal equivalent of pruning a tree so it fruits better, not just looks tidier.
- not shortness
- Haiku can ramble, a sentence can be tight
- editing law
- Strunk and White demanded it, then broke it often
- cognitive load
- brains punish every unnecessary word with lost attention
- paradox
- takes longer to write short than long