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laconism

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Noun
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lac=o=nism

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun laconism has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

laconismn. [Gr. , fr. to imitate Lacedæmonian manners, to speak laconically: cf. F. laconisme.].
  •  A vigorous, brief manner of expression; laconic style.  [1913 Webster]
  •  An instance of laconic style or expression.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

laconism, n.
1 brevity of speech.
2 a short pithy saying.

Etymology
Gk lakonismos f. lakonizo behave like a Spartan: see LACONIC

ROGET THESAURUS

laconism

Conciseness

N conciseness, brevity, the soul of wit, laconism, Tacitus, ellipsis, syncope, abridgment, compression, epitome, monostich, brunch word, portmanteau word, concise, brief, short, terse, close, to the point, exact, neat, compact, compressed, condensed, pointed, laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary, pregnant, compendious, succinct, elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp, sententious, concisely, briefly, summarily, in brief, in short, in a word, in a few words, for shortness sake, to come to the point, to make a long story short, to cut the matter short, to be brief, it comes to this, the long and the short of it is, brevis esse laboro obscurus fio.

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