English

Noun

brachiologia ‎(uncountable)

1. (rhetoric) Brevity in speech.
   • 2009, Daniel Boyarin, Socrates & the fat rabbis, page 105:

     I have modified Irwin's presentation (with each speech on a separate line), following rather the way that Dodds presents the Greek, to give a better sense of the rapidity of brachyologia.

Synonyms

• (brevity in speech): brachyology, terseness, laconicism