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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Synonym of conciseness (“brevity or terseness”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: conciseness
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A form of media censorship where discussions are limited in topics on the basis of broadcast time allotments.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A cutting off; a division; a schism or faction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Mutilation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
penile mutilation, emasculation (used as a polemical term in Paul's epistles)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: Christianity
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noun
terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: conciseness, pithiness, succinctness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: terseness
History
Borrowed from French concision, from Latin concisiō(n).
