English Dictionary

laconism

名詞

修辞法 不可算名詞 可算名詞

(uncountable, rhetoric) Extreme brevity in expression. / (countable) A very or notably brief expression.

日本語の意味

極めて簡潔であること、または非常に短い表現、すなわち言葉が極端に少なく簡潔に意志を伝える様子を指す。

The professor praised the poet's laconism, noting how a single line could convey an entire universe.

教授は詩人の表現における極端な簡潔さを称賛し、一行で全体を伝えられることを指摘した。

意味（1）

(uncountable, rhetoric) Extreme brevity in expression.

“Well, where have you been?” he said to her with offhand laconism.

意味（2）

(countable) A very or notably brief expression.

The hand of PROVIDENCE writes often by abbreviatures, hieroglyphicks or short characters, which, like the Laconism on the wall, are not to be made out but by a hint or key from that SPIRIT which indited them.

laconisms （ plural ）