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'''Succinctness''' is a characteristic of [[Plain language|speech]],<ref name=Garner2009b>{{cite book | last1=Garner| first1=Bryan A.| author1-link=Bryan A. Garner| title=[[Garner on Language and Writing]]: Selected Essays and Speeches of Bryan A. Garner| year=2009| publisher=American Bar Association| location=Chicago| isbn=1-60442-445-1| page=295}}</ref> [[laconic phrase|writing]],<ref>Leslie Kurke, Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose, Princeton University Press, 2010, pp. 131–2, 135.</ref> [[succinct data structure|data structure]],<ref>Jacobson, G. J (1988). Succinct static data structures.</ref> [[Succinct game|algorithmic games]],<ref name="Papadimitriou2007">{{Cite book|last= Papadimitriou |first= C.H. |editor1-first= Noam |editor1-last= Nisan |editor2-first= Tim| editor2-last=Roughgarden |editor3-first= Éva |editor3-last=Tardos |editor4-first= Vijay V. |editor4-last=Vazirani |title= Algorithmic Game Theory |publisher= Cambridge University Press| year= 2007| pages=29–52| chapter= The Complexity of Finding Nash Equilibria| isbn= 978-0-521-87282-9}}</ref> and [[Occam's razor|thought in general]],<ref>Ariew, Roger (1976). Ockham's Razor: A Historical and Philosophical Analysis of Ockham's Principle of Parsimony. Champaign-Urbana, University of Illinois.</ref> exhibiting both clarity and brevity.

Brevity in succinctness is not achieved by shortening original material by [[code|coding]] or [[Data compression|compressing]] it, but rather by omitting [[Redundancy (linguistics)|redundant]] material from it.

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