breviloquencen.
/brɪˈvɪləkwəns/ rare.
Brevity of speech; laconism.
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the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [noun] > brevity or sparingness of speech
sparingness1617
pauciloquy1623
breviloquence1656
curtness1762
monosyllabism1804
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Breviloquence..a brief or short form of speaking.
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Breviloquence (Lat., a short discourse, a speaking in brief.
1721 in Bailey. [Not in Johnson .]
1863 J. G. Murphy Crit. Comm. Bk. Gen. (xli. 9–13) 525 A specimen of pithy breviloquence.
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