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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Brevity of speech; conciseness.
  2. n. A shortened or condensed phrase or expression.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In rhetoric and grammar, brevity of diction; a concise or abridged form of expression; especially, non-repetition or omission of a word when its repetition or use would be necessary to complete the grammatical construction: as, I do not think so now, but I have (thought so); this is as good (as) or better than that.

Wiktionary

  1. n. concise speech; laconism
  2. n. 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).

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Rhet.) Conciseness of expression; brevity.

Etymologies

  1. From brachy- + -logy, from Ancient Greek βραχυλογία, from βραχύς ("short") + λογία ("speech"); compare brachyology. (Wiktionary)
  2. Medieval Latin brachylogia, from Greek brakhulogiā : brakhu-, brachy- + logos, speech; see -logy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. brevity

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  1. asyndeton
  1. aposiopesis
  1. praegnans constructio
  1. zeugma
  1. syllipsis
  1. compendious comparison
  1. apokoinou

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  1. figure of speech
  1. -logy

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