laconism

1. (uncountable, rhetoric) Extreme brevity in expression.Examples: "“Well, where have you been?” he said to her with offhand laconism."; "[…] Joe Montana is finally calling it quits. A retirement party in San Francisco and a press conference in Kansas City, Missouri, are planned for this week, and his agents are shopping him around to the networks as a broadcaster, even though Montana has a reputation for laconism."Synonyms: conciseness, laconicism, succinctness, brevity, briefness, conciseness, concision, laconicalnessrhetoricuncountable

2. (countable) A very or notably brief expression.Examples: "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."; "Perhaps the most striking difference between [A Tale of Two Cities] and his other novels may seem to lie in the all but entire absence from it of any humour or attempt at humour; for neither the brutalities of that “honest tradesman” Jerry, nor the laconisms of Miss Pross, can well be called by that name."Synonyms: brevity, epigramcountable