diff --git a/command/arguments/view.go b/command/arguments/view.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3d6372b6a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/command/arguments/view.go
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+package arguments
+
+// View represents the global command-line arguments which configure the view.
+type View struct {
+	// NoColor is used to disable the use of terminal color codes in all
+	// output.
+	NoColor bool
+
+	// CompactWarnings is used to coalesce duplicate warnings, to reduce the
+	// level of noise when multiple instances of the same warning are raised
+	// for a configuration.
+	CompactWarnings bool
+}
+
+// ParseView processes CLI arguments, returning a View value and a
+// possibly-modified slice of arguments. If any of the supported flags are
+// found, they will be removed from the slice.
+func ParseView(args []string) (*View, []string) {
+	common := &View{}
+
+	// Keep track of the length of the returned slice. When we find an
+	// argument we support, i will not be incremented.
+	i := 0
+	for _, v := range args {
+		switch v {
+		case "-no-color":
+			common.NoColor = true
+		case "-compact-warnings":
+			common.CompactWarnings = true
+		default:
+			// Unsupported argument: move left to the current position, and
+			// increment the index.
+			args[i] = v
+			i++
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Reduce the slice to the number of unsupported arguments. Any remaining
+	// to the right of i have already been moved left.
+	args = args[:i]
+
+	return common, args
+}
diff --git a/command/arguments/view_test.go b/command/arguments/view_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d2e7c3f73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/command/arguments/view_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+package arguments
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/google/go-cmp/cmp"
+)
+
+func TestParseView(t *testing.T) {
+	testCases := map[string]struct {
+		args     []string
+		want     *View
+		wantArgs []string
+	}{
+		"nil": {
+			nil,
+			&View{NoColor: false, CompactWarnings: false},
+			nil,
+		},
+		"empty": {
+			[]string{},
+			&View{NoColor: false, CompactWarnings: false},
+			[]string{},
+		},
+		"none matching": {
+			[]string{"-foo", "bar", "-baz"},
+			&View{NoColor: false, CompactWarnings: false},
+			[]string{"-foo", "bar", "-baz"},
+		},
+		"no-color": {
+			[]string{"-foo", "-no-color", "-baz"},
+			&View{NoColor: true, CompactWarnings: false},
+			[]string{"-foo", "-baz"},
+		},
+		"compact-warnings": {
+			[]string{"-foo", "-compact-warnings", "-baz"},
+			&View{NoColor: false, CompactWarnings: true},
+			[]string{"-foo", "-baz"},
+		},
+		"both": {
+			[]string{"-foo", "-no-color", "-compact-warnings", "-baz"},
+			&View{NoColor: true, CompactWarnings: true},
+			[]string{"-foo", "-baz"},
+		},
+		"both, resulting in empty args": {
+			[]string{"-no-color", "-compact-warnings"},
+			&View{NoColor: true, CompactWarnings: true},
+			[]string{},
+		},
+	}
+	for name, tc := range testCases {
+		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			got, gotArgs := ParseView(tc.args)
+			if *got != *tc.want {
+				t.Errorf("unexpected result\n got: %#v\nwant: %#v", got, tc.want)
+			}
+			if !cmp.Equal(gotArgs, tc.wantArgs) {
+				t.Errorf("unexpected args\n got: %#v\nwant: %#v", gotArgs, tc.wantArgs)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
diff --git a/command/meta.go b/command/meta.go
index 92ad6b85a..4f01af630 100644
--- a/command/meta.go
+++ b/command/meta.go
@@ -621,10 +621,6 @@ func (m *Meta) process(args []string) []string {
 		},
 	}
 
-	if m.View != nil {
-		m.View.EnableColor(m.Color)
-	}
-
 	return args
 }
 
diff --git a/command/output.go b/command/output.go
index 4eaec982a..52e4b942a 100644
--- a/command/output.go
+++ b/command/output.go
@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ type OutputCommand struct {
 }
 
 func (c *OutputCommand) Run(rawArgs []string) int {
-	rawArgs = c.Meta.process(rawArgs)
+	// Parse and apply global view arguments
+	common, rawArgs := arguments.ParseView(rawArgs)
+	c.View.Configure(common)
 
 	// Parse and validate flags
 	args, diags := arguments.ParseOutput(rawArgs)
diff --git a/command/output_test.go b/command/output_test.go
index 36efa114c..3824c0fdc 100644
--- a/command/output_test.go
+++ b/command/output_test.go
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ func TestOutput_emptyOutputs(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	args := []string{
+		"-no-color",
 		"-state", statePath,
 	}
 	code := c.Run(args)
diff --git a/command/views/view.go b/command/views/view.go
index a5dd446b6..5dd75184f 100644
--- a/command/views/view.go
+++ b/command/views/view.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package views
 import (
 	"fmt"
 
+	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/command/arguments"
 	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/command/format"
 	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/internal/terminal"
 	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/tfdiags"
@@ -41,11 +42,10 @@ func NewView(streams *terminal.Streams) *View {
 	}
 }
 
-// EnableColor controls the colorize implementation used by this view (and any
-// other views which depend on it). This is called by the code which processes
-// the global -no-color CLI flag, which happens after the view is initialized.
-func (v *View) EnableColor(color bool) {
-	v.colorize.Disable = !color
+// Configure applies the global view configuration flags.
+func (v *View) Configure(view *arguments.View) {
+	v.colorize.Disable = view.NoColor
+	v.compactWarnings = view.CompactWarnings
 }
 
 // SetConfigSources overrides the default no-op callback with a new function