The quality or state of being firm, hard, solid, or dense; solidity, hardness. Also figurative of literary style: conciseness, pithiness. Obsolete.

Compendious quality or form, comprehensiveness, conciseness, brevity.

brevity in speech, ‘brachylogy’.

Brevity or conciseness in speech or writing.

The being short in speech or writing; contraction into few words, conciseness, terseness.

Shortness in speech or writing; brevity; conciseness.

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

The habit or practice of imitating the Lacedæmonian manners, esp. in brevity of speech.

The quality or condition of being succinct; conciseness.

In extended use: the quality of being sparing in the giving or using of something abstract, as emotion, good fortune, words, etc.

= laconism, n. 2a 2b.

Pithiness or conciseness in speech.

brevity, conciseness.

Concise quality; brevity, terseness.

Exactness, conciseness.

= compendiousness, n.

Conciseness.

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

= conciseness, n.

Laconical quality.

Of style: Terseness, pithiness.

The quality of being terse. Polish, elegance, or neatness of style; in modern use, Neat and forcible conciseness.

Spartan character or qualities.

discipline, principles, or methods resembling those of Sparta.

Conciseness of speech, laconism; concrete a condensed expression.

Condensed quality; pithiness.