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brachylogy (bra-KIL-uh-jee) noun

   Conciseness of diction or an instance of such.

[From Medieval Latin brachylogia, from Greek brakhulogi, brakhu-,
brachy- (short) + -logy, from logos (word).]

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

  "The term for the omission of words that are intended to be 'understood'
   by the reader is ellipsis. Its extreme or irregular form has a name in
   Greek rhetoric: brachylogy, relying on the listener to supply the missing
   words, much as I relied on the reader to put a verb in the sentence
   fragment 'A profound question, that.'"
   William Safire; Microwave of the Future; The New York Times; Oct 7, 1990.

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