brachylogy

Meaning

Noun

• Concise speech; laconism.
• 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!"

Related

Narrower meaning words

• zeugma, syllepsis, apokoinou, compendious comparison, praegnans constructio, asyndeton, aposiopesis

Origin

• From brachy- + -logy, from Ancient Greek βραχυλογία, from βραχύς + λογία; compare brachyology.