Pauciloquy

//pɔːˈsɪləkwi// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Economical speech; the use of few words when speaking; laconism. uncommon, uncountable

Etymology

From the Classical Latin pauciloquium (“the fact of speaking few words”), from paucus (“little, few”) + loquor (“to speak”). Structurally pauci- + -loquy.

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