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<p>In common <a href="page.php?w=usage">usage</a> and <a href="page.php?w=linguistics">linguistics</a>, <b>concision</b> (also called <b>conciseness</b>, <b>succinctness</b>, <b>terseness</b>, <b>brevity</b>, or <b>laconicism</b>) is a communication principle of eliminating <a href="page.php?w=redundancy_%28linguistics%29">redundancy</a>, generally achieved by using as few <a href="page.php?w=word">word</a>s as possible in a <a href="page.php?w=Sentence_%28linguistics%29">sentence</a> while preserving its <a href="page.php?w=semantics">meaning</a>.</p><p>
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