brachyology means A figure of speech that is an abbreviated expression, for example, the omission of "good" from "good morning!" (resulting in the abbreviated greeting "morning!"). Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why “brachyology” is a great word
BRACHYOLOGY — [Noun] A rhetorical figure involving the deliberate abbreviation of a conventional phrase, where omitted words are powerfully implied. From Late Latin brachiologia, from Ancient Greek βραχύς (brakhús, "short") + -λογία (-logía, "speech"). Unlike ellipsis, a general grammatical omission for syntactic clarity, or brevitas, the broad ideal of concise expression, brachyology is a pointed, stylistic compression. It is the clipped command—"Your turn"—hanging in the air of a tense game; the headline's stark "No Comment"; the lover's final, unspoken "If only…" trailing into silence. It is a linguistic shorthand where the true weight rests in the unuttered, a pact of implication between speaker and listener.
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- A figure of speech that is an abbreviated expression, for example, the omission of "good" from "good morning!" (resulting in the abbreviated greeting "morning!").“In the words [...of] Acts x. 39. there might be a brachyology, in case the sense were: we are witnesses of all that he did, of this also, that they put him to death. But such an omission is not necessary.”