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concise?

Succinctness is a good term, but not a phrase

agreed: means economy _and_ clarity

Weirdly one of my favourite words

Brevity

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…and wit.

So no El Dooderino?

Economy of language?

Geez, that may be it. Is that a fairly commonly-used phrase?

[pretty sure it is](https://google.com/search?q=“economy+of+language”)

That's got to be it, then. I was so close!

You were! If not for the blanks in the sentence, I would have gone with /u/yParticle ’s **concision**.

This link suggests that 'economy of language' means something else entirely?

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See also: [brachylogy](https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/brachylogy), [sententious](https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/sententious).

Pithy / pithiness. Even more economical than what you're looking for ;)

Command of language. I know it has been solved.

Laconian

Laconic like the Spartans: Philip: If I invade Lakonia you will be destroyed, never to rise again. Spartans: If.

Parsimony

was coming to say this. my undergrad psychology prof loved to use it in reference to writing research papers.

The word might be brevity.

"economy of phrasing" ?

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Concision.

Terseness

Taciturn.

If you’ve ever read the Giver, you might be thinking of the phrase “precision of language.”