Concise vs Dense - What's the difference?
concise | dense |
Having relatively high density.
Compact; crowded together.
Thick; difficult to penetrate.
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Obscure, or difficult to understand.
(mathematics, topology) Being a subset of a topological space that approximates the space well. See Wikipedia article on (dense set)s for mathematical definition.
Of a person, slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.
As adjectives the difference between concise and dense
is that concise is brief, yet including all important information while dense is having relatively high density.concise
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Synonyms
* succinct * See alsoAntonyms
* verboseDerived terms
* concisely * concision * concisenessdense
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Adjective
(er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.}}