brachylogy
English
Alternative forms
- brachyology, brachylogia
Etymology
From brachy- + -logy, from Ancient Greek βραχυλογία (brakhulogía), from βραχύς (brakhús, “short”) + λογία (logía, “speech”); compare brachyology.
Noun
brachylogy (uncountable)
- concise speech; laconism
- (rhetoric) Any of several forms of omission of words, including the omission of an understood part of a phrase, as, the omission of "good" from "(good) morning!" (brachyology).
Hyponyms
- (rhetoric): zeugma, syllepsis, apokoinou, compendious comparison, praegnans constructio, asyndeton, aposiopesis
Translations
concise speech
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