There are elderly men in neat string ties walking in small, careful steps across marble floors and voluble, bearded taxi drivers who are studying physics in night school. One of the arts of writing is to compress much into a word. But don't make it an abstract word. Expand into detail to make your writing more vivid. This is also part of Show Don't Tell.
Readers actually like to work things out for themselves.
One of my least favorite writers has a habit of telling readers exactly what every character is feeling and thinking in every paragraph. I find myself bored. I want her to show me a man talking to his son in stilted, awkward sentences while his son stares out the window, and let me figure out for myself how their relationship is doing. Example I wrote an example of the contrast between telling and showing. We're supposed to love our brother.