compendiousnessn.
/kəmˈpɛndɪəsnɪs/ Compendious quality or form, comprehensiveness, conciseness, brevity.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > [noun]
fastness?a1200
compendiousness1398
short speaking14..
shortness?c1450
brevity1509
briefness1530
pithiness1557
laconism1570
succinctness1609
parsimony1650
laconicism1656
nexility1656
syntomy1656
conciseness1659
closeness1712
compendiosity1727
pressness1728
abruptness1731
concision1774
laconicalness1830
compactness1841
terseness1864
Spartanhood1880
Spartanism1880
brachylogy1882–3
condensity1885
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ix. xxxi. 368 All thoffice of the day is ended vnder compendiousnes of moste shorte Euynsonge.
1526 W. Tyndale Prol. to N.T. Ep. to Rdr. To bring to compendiousness that which is now translated at the length.
1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation Epistle sig. A iiv I..haue brought the arte of Nauigation into a briefe compendiousnesse.
1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. v. 6 The inviting easiness and compendiousness of this Assertion.
1872 J. Morley Voltaire iii. 114 This outward ease and swift compendiousness of speech.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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