concision

Synonym of conciseness (“brevity or terseness”).

Noun

  1. Synonym of conciseness (“brevity or terseness”).

    Synonyms: conciseness

  2. A form of media censorship where discussions are limited in topics on the basis of broadcast time allotments.
  3. A cutting off; a division; a schism or faction.
    • those of the Concision who made it - 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

    Coordinate Terms: excision

  4. Mutilation.
  5. penile mutilation, emasculation (used as a polemical term in Paul's epistles)

    Coordinate Terms: circumcision

Origin

Borrowed from French concision, from Latin concisiō(n).

Forms

concisions