pithiness
- n terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words
- These days digital eloquence is defined by pithiness.
- Reams have been written on the differences between Islamic and Western societies, but for sheer pithiness, it's hard to beat a quip by my former colleague, a Pakistani scholar of .
- It is in the characteristic pithiness with which Bernard Malamud defines what he learned, as a writer, from Charlie Chaplin: "The rhythm, the snap of comedy; the reserved comic .