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Laconism
Laconism is a figure of speech in which someone uses very few words to express an idea. This may be used for efficiency (like in military jargon), for philosophical reasons (especially among thinkers who believe in minimalism, such as stoics), for better disarming a long, pompous speech (the most famous example being at the Battle of Thermopylae) or, simply, a consequence of poor literary education (arguably, this is the real reason why Spartans were concise at Thermopylae and the rhetorical consequence of their laconism was just an unvoluntary, positive and surprising consequence).
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