In Hamlet, Shakespeare wrote that “brevity is the soul of wit,” essentially reminding us that less is more. The adjective “breviloquent” combines the Latin “brevis,” meaning “short,” and “loquens,” meaning “speaking,” to describe a person’s speech or style of writing as concise. While they may also be eloquent (meaning their speech is persuasive or stylish), being breviloquent doesn’t require any certain type of panache — just brevity.