brachylogy

• brachyology, brachylogia

From brachy- +‎ -logy, from Ancient Greek βραχυλογία (brakhulogía), from βραχύς (brakhús, “short”) + λογία (logía, “speech”); compare brachyology.

brachylogy (uncountable)

1. concise speech; laconism
2. (rhetoric) Any of several forms of omission of words, including the omission of an understood part of a phrase, as, the omission of "good" from "(good) morning!"

• (rhetoric): zeugma, syllepsis, apokoinou, compendious comparison, praegnans constructio, asyndeton, aposiopesis

• ellipsis