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The quality of expressing the needed meaning in few words.

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conciseness

The summary's conciseness made it useful before a busy committee meeting.
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Jo revised the analogy when a classmate assumed that every feature of a noticeboard had an equivalent on a screen. To restore clarity, she named the specific similarity she intended and explained where the comparison stopped. That addition did not defeat conciseness, because the extra sentence prevented a likely misunderstanding.
From Making the Seminar Clear.
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