Brevity
['brevɪtɪ] or ['brɛvəti]
Definition
(noun.) the attribute of being brief or fleeting.
(noun.) the use of brief expressions.
Editor: Louise--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life.
(n.) Contraction into few words; conciseness.
Editor: Winthrop
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Briefness, shortness.[2]. Conciseness, terseness, compression, succinctness, pithiness.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Shortness, closeness, conciseness, succinctness, terseness, compendiousness,pointedness, abbreviation, abridgment
ANT:Length, protraction, elongation, extension, prolixity, diffusiveness,[SeeIDENTITY], tediousness
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Definition
n. shortness: conciseness.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A desirable quality in the Fourth of July oration but not in the fireworks.
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Examples
- Every one knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- These were all the speeches that were made, and I recommend them to parties who present policemen with gold watches, as models of brevity and point. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I visited many other apartments, but shall not trouble my reader with all the curiosities I observed, being studious of brevity. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Yes, sir, that is so, says Mr. George with military brevity. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The toast having been drunk with enthusiasm, Mrs. Bagnet returns thanks in a neat address of corresponding brevity. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Suiting my reply to his love of brevity and dispatch, I said, 'That would suit me. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is my way--it always was my way, by instinct--ever to meet the brief with brevity, the direct with plainness. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She answered with equal indifference and brevity, and the other said no more. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It was when the weaver threw the shuttle through the warp by hand that Job's exclamation, My days are like a weaver's shuttle was an appropriate text on the brevity of human life. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I shall here discuss this subject with extreme brevity. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- These agencies may be all grouped together, for the sake of brevity, under the expression of the laws of growth. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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