epigrammatism

epigrammatism (uncountable)

1. The use of epigrams; epigrammatical character.
   • 1870, James Edward Austen-Leigh, Memoir of Jane Austen‎:

     The work is rather too light, and bright, and sparkling; it wants shade; it wants to be stretched out here and there with a long chapter of sense, if it could be had; if not, of solemn specious nonsense, about something unconnected with the story; an essay on writing, a critique on Walter Scott, or the history of Buonaparte, or something that would form a contrast, and bring the reader with increased delight to the playfulness and epigrammatism of the general style.

• “epigrammatism”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.