Brachiologia

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Brevity in speech. rhetoric, uncountable

    "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

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brachyologybrachyologylaconicismterseness

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"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."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βραχύς (brakhús, “short”) + -λογία (-logía, “study”). Compare brachylogy.

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