Brachylogy

Alternative forms

• brachyology, brachylogia

Origin

From - + logy + -, from Ancient Greek βραχυλογία, from βραχύς ("short") + λογία ("speech"); compare brachyology.

Full definition of brachylogy

Noun

1. concise speech; laconism
2. (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