pauciloquy
Meanings
noun
- Economical speech; the use of few words when speaking; laconism.
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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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