expressive style vs terseness

terseness vs expressive style

expressive style and terseness both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
expressive style	Yes	No	No	No
terseness	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, terseness is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, terseness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than expressive style:

expressive style: a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
terseness: a neatly short and concise expressive style

Other hyponyms of expressive style include allegory, analysis, bathos, black humor, black humour, device, eloquence, fluency, smoothness, euphuism, flatness, expression, formulation, grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric, headlinese, jargon, journalese, legalese, delivery, manner of speaking, speech, officialese, pathos, prose, rhetoric, coarseness, saltiness, self-expression, sesquipedality, turn of expression, turn of phrase, vein, verboseness, verbosity, genre, literary genre, writing style, poetry, digressiveness.

expressive style (noun)	terseness (noun)
a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period	a neatly short and concise expressive style

Difference between expressive style and terseness

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