The action, practice, or art of expressing thought with fluency, force, and appropriateness, so as to appeal to the reason or move the feelings. Also…

Oratorical or literary expression of thought; literary ‘style’ as distinguished from ‘matter’; the power or art of appropriate and effective…

Grave, weighty, or serious character or nature; importance, seriousness. of literary productions, style, etc. Obsolete.

Force, power, energy (of words, speech, etc.). In later use chiefly: the quality of conveying meaning forcibly through brevity of expression…

Of words, arguments, etc.

= emphasis, n.

Chiefly Rhetoric. As a quality of written or spoken language, or of a specific word or phrase: the capacity to effectively or cogently express a…

Force or intensity of expression.

The quality of being pithy; esp. fullness of meaning with brevity of expression; terseness, aphoristic character.

The quality or fact of being cut short; brevity; (in later use esp.) curtness or brusqueness of writing, speech, or manner.

The quality of being emphatic; esp. force or intensity of expression; = emphasis, n. 3a.

Strength, vigour, force. Obsolete.

The quality of being cogent; power of impelling or constraining; force (moral or logical).

The quality of being forcible.

= cogency, n.

Intellectual vigour, energy, or ‘go’, esp. as manifested in literary productions; great vivacity of ideas and expression. (Common from 1870.)

Of discourse, style, artistic creations, etc.: Strength or vividness of effect.

transferred. Of writings, etc.

figurative. colloquial (originally U.S.). A high or impressive level of forcefulness or effectiveness; vigour, effectiveness, impact.

The fact or quality of being compulsive.

The quality of being punchy; vigour, dynamism, forcefulness.