different between expression vs laconism

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French expression, from Late Latin expressi?, expressi?nem (“a pressing out”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?sp???.?n/
• Rhymes: -???n
• Hyphenation: ex?pres?sion

Noun

expression (countable and uncountable, plural expressions)

1. The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc.
2. A particular way of phrasing an idea.
3. A colloquialism or idiom.

4. A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:expression.

5. (mathematics) An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols.
6. (biology) The process of translating a gene into a protein.
7. (programming) A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.
8. A specific blend of whisky.
9. (biology) The act of pressing or squeezing out.

   expression from a gland

   the expression of milk from the mammaries

10. (music) The tone of voice or sound in music.

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Derived terms

Related terms

• expression pedal

Translations

French

Etymology

From Middle French expression, borrowed from Latin expressi?, expressi?nem (“a pressing out”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.sp??.sj??/

Noun

expression f (plural expressions)

1. expression

Derived terms

Related terms

• exprimer

Further reading

• “expression” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin expressi?, expressi?nem (“a pressing out”).

Noun

expression (plural expressiones)

1. expression

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin expressi?, expressi?nem (“a pressing out”).

Noun

expression f (plural expressions)

1. (Jersey) expression

English

Etymology

From Latin Laconia, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (Lakedaím?n, “the region surrounding the city of Sparta”).

Noun

laconism (countable and uncountable, plural laconisms)

1. (uncountable, rhetoric) Extreme brevity in expression.
   • 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Chapter 20,^[1]

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

   • 1995, Steve Wulf, “The Passing of an Era,” Time, 24 April, 1995,^[2]

     […] 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.

2. (countable) A very or notably brief expression.
   • 1716, Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition edited by Samuel Johnson, London: J. Payne, 1756, Part I, p. 37,^[3]

     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.

   • 1882, Adolphus William Ward, Charles Dickens, London: Macmillan, Chapter 6, p. 154,^[4]

     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

• (extreme brevity in expression): conciseness, laconicism, succinctness; see also Thesaurus:succinctness
• (a very or notably brief expression): brevity, epigram

Related terms

• laconic

Translations

Anagrams

• limacons, limaçons

Romanian

Etymology

From French laconisme

Noun

laconism n (uncountable)

1. laconism

Declension