Brachylogy
brevity of diction; concise or abridged form of expression.
noun (pl) -gies
a concise style in speech or writing
a colloquial shortened form of expression that is not the result of a regular grammatical process: the omission of “good” in the expression “Afternoon” is a brachylogy
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