Succinct vs Discursive - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between succinct and discursive

is that succinct is brief and to the point while discursive is (of speech or writing) tending to digress from the main point; rambling.

(en adjective)

brief and to the point

compressed into a tiny area.

(archaic) wrapped by, or as if by a girdle; closely fitting, wound or wrapped or drawn up tightly.

* concise * laconic * See also

* succinctness * succinctly

(en adjective)

(of speech or writing) Tending to digress from the main point; rambling.

This means, at times, long and perhaps overly discursive discussions of other taxa.

(philosophy) Using reason and argument rather than intuition.

* counterdiscursive