concision

Borrowed from French concision, from Latin concisiō.

• IPA^(key): /kənˈsɪʒən/
• Rhymes: -ɪʒən
• Hyphenation: con‧ci‧sion

concision (countable and uncountable, plural concisions)

1. (somewhat rare) Conciseness, brevity or terseness.
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.
   • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:

     those of the Concision who made it

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

• (conciseness): laconicism, succinctness; see also Thesaurus:succinctness

From Latin concīsiōnem.

concision f (plural concisions)

1. concision

• concis

• “concision”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.