brachiologia · noun — brevity in speech. It carries an Arena rating of 1328, earned across 19 head-to-head judged battles.
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Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, brachiologia ranks #164 of 17,207 for Most Betrayed by Its Sound, #3,499 of 17,201 for Funniest Words, #4,547 of 17,165 for Most Satisfying to Say, #5,083 of 17,176 for Most Incisive Words.
Why “brachiologia” is a great word
Brevity or conciseness in speech or writing. From the Ancient Greek βραχύς (brakhús, 'short') and -λογία (-logía, '-logy, study, speech'). Unlike 'brachylogy' (which denotes a specific rhetorical figure of condensed grammar) or 'verbosity' (its sprawling, antonymic opposite), brachiologia is the general virtue of economy in expression. It is the clean incision of a scalpel, the single stone that skips seven times across a still pond, the perfect silence that follows a truth too plainly spoken—the profound discipline of knowing what to leave unsaid.
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek βραχύς (brakhús, “short”) + -λογία (-logía, “study”). Compare brachylogy.
noun
- brevity in speech.e.g.“I have modified Irwin's presentation (with each speech on a separate line), following rather the way that Dodds presents the Greek, to give a better sense of the rapidity of brachyologia.” — 2009, Daniel Boyarin, Socrates & the fat rabbis, page 105:
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