Brachylogy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Brevity of speech; conciseness.
  • n. A shortened or condensed phrase or expression.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. concise speech; laconism
  • n. 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).
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Conciseness of expression; brevity.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
    • Word Usage
    "A similar brachylogy at _EP_ I iv 31 'iunctior Haemonia est _Ponto_ quam Roma"
    Cross Reference
    ellipsis   
    Hyponym
    asyndeton    aposiopesis    praegnans constructio    zeugma    syllipsis   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    brevity   
     
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