The quality or practice of speaking in few words; conciseness and brevity in speech.
From Latin 'brevis' (short) + 'loquentia' (eloquence, from 'loqui' meaning to speak). This term emerged in the 17th-18th centuries, influenced by classical rhetoric.
In an age of Twitter and texts, breviloquence is ironically fashionable again—but Cicero himself would have appreciated speakers who said 'no' instead of a 10-minute explanation!
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