Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being pithy; strength; concentrated force: as, the pithiness of a reply.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being pithy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition of being
pithy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words
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Examples
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Otherwise the pithiness has the potential to be dangerously misleading.
The Proactionary Principle, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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A bit more pithiness and a touch of emotional outrage could help you, I think, but I never got the impression that you were too abstract or unconnected to the particularities of policy scenarios.
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February 17th, 2010 at 10: 30 pm matt, short enough to fit in a tweet: that packer thinks twitter is unhelpful does not mean he is a luddite. just that he is neither so sure of his pithiness nor so self-indulgent enough to think a half thought worth posting. luckily, i am not so self-constrained. joejoejoe says:
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It appeared that Opera PR had successfully reached out to all of them, shoved a news release down their throats and waited to give them the go-ahead to regurgitate it on their blogs, using the same screenshots, same content, and differing only in the pithiness of their post titles.
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Verbosity trumps pithiness, for verbosity hits you in the face while pithiness meanders through the brain searching for a destination.
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DML's extremely pleasant third album is an unexpected curio – a psychedelic record with great affection for the Byrds and the Beatles, but played with the discipline and pithiness of former punks.
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It's caught on for obvious reasons -- a pithiness that so accurately describes what we've all sensed about the two industries.
Who says Washington is "Hollywood for ugly people"?: We trace a cliche back to its origins The Reliable Source 2010
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As a final flourish, Cameron previewed a soundbite that has the pithiness and truth of a campaign slogan.
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As a final flourish, Cameron previewed a soundbite that has the pithiness and truth of a campaign slogan.
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Students will acquire the tools needed to make their tweets glimmer with a complete lack of forethought, their Facebook updates ring with self-importance, and their blog entries shimmer with literary pithiness.
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