Laconic vs Sententious - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between laconic and sententious

is that laconic is using as few words as possible; pithy and concise while sententious is (obsolete) full of meaning.

(Laconic phrase)

(en adjective)

Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise.

* Alexander Pope

I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long.

* Welwood

His sense was strong and his style laconic .

* concise, pithy, terse

* bombastic, long-winded, verbose, loquacious, prolix

(en adjective)

(obsolete) Full of meaning.

Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise.

Tending to use aphorisms or maxims, especially given to trite moralizing.

* (using as few words as possible) concise, pithy * (tending to use aphorisms) aphoristic

* sententiously * sententiousness