[f. L. epigrammat- (see EPIGRAMMATIC) + -ISM.] Epigrammatic style.
1813. Jane Austen, Lett., 4 Feb. (1870). The playfulness and epigrammatism of the general style.
a. 1849. Poe, F. S. Osgood, Wks. 1865, III. 95. A rich tint of that epigrammatism for which the poetess is noted.