summariness

noun

summariness

noun

Etymology From summary + -ness.

1

The state or condition of being summary.

  • November 18, 1921, Joseph Conrad, letter to Hugh Walpole Each of the Christina episodes leaves behind a curious sense of baffled expectation which does not lie in a faulty conception of them, but, I verily believe, in the summariness of the treatment. I don't mean lack of vigour.

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