pointedness
61sting — 1. noun 1) a bee sting Syn: prick, wound, injury, puncture 2) this cream will take the sting away Syn: smart, pricking; pain, soreness, hurt, irritation 3) …
62concise — concise, terse, succinct, laconic, summary, pithy, compendious are comparable when meaning briefly stated or presented or given to or manifesting brevity in statement or expression. A person is concise who speaks or writes briefly ; a thing is… …
63explicit — explicit, express, specific, definite, categorical are comparable when applied to statements, utterances, and language and when meaning perfectly clear in significance or reference. Something is explicit which is stated so plainly and distinctly… …
64phrase — phrase, idiom, expression, locution mean a group of words which, taken together, express a notion and may be used as a part of a sentence. Phrase may apply to a group of words which for one reason or another recurs frequently (as in the language… …
65wordy — wordy, verbose, prolix, diffuse, redundant can all mean using or marked by the use of more words than are necessary to express the thought. Wordy often carries no further implications, though it may suggest garrulousness or loquacity when the… …
66acuteness — n 1. sharpness, keenness, pointedness; acumination, cuspidation, spinousness. 2. intensity, exquisiteness, fierceness; poignancy, piquancy, pungency. 3. abruptness, suddenness, rapidness, extremity, precipitousness. 4. severity, criticalness,… …
67brevity — n 1. briefness, shortness, shortlivedness, transcience, impermanence, ephemerality, caducity. 2. conciseness, succinctness, curtness, terseness, lac onism; pithiness, pointedness, crispness, compactness, compression, compendiousness …
68distinctness — n 1. separatenesss, discreteness, individuality, unconnectedness; difference, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, unlikeness, disparateness. 2. clearness, vividness, graphicness, manifestness, obviousness, plainness; certainness, lucidity, pointedness …
69edge — n 1. border, rim, margin, lip, fringe, periph ery, perimeter, skirt; circumference, circuit, compass, ambit, outline, frame; bound, limit, bourn, pale, extremity, outer limits, apogee; brink, brow, verge, brim. 2. cutting edge, knife edge, razor… …
70keenness — n cogency, penetration, incisiveness, pointedness; mordancy, mordaciousness, trenchancy, pungency, cuttingness, bitingness, stingingness, scorchingness; satiricalness, sardonicism, derisiveness, mockingness, insultingness; harshness, severity,… …
