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What is a laconism?

What is a laconism? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (uncountable, rhetoric) Extreme brevity in expression.
  2. (countable) A very or notably brief expression.
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You may, perhaps, imagine that laconism could no further go.
The principal hallmarks of Echenoz's style are his laconism, his dry wit, and the precision with which he chooses words and images.
This I shall endeavour to interpret, by developing to the best of my ability the laconism of the philosophical naturalist.
At the meeting of young writers in November 1956 Havel's speech shocked the audience by the valor with which he expressed heretical in those times thoughts about the freedom of creativity and by the laconism of definitions.
He was the Spartan of Tobymen, and laconism was the short soul of his professional legislation!
This laconism came from the lips of a young man who was walking along the Levee of New Orleans.

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