- briefness
- noun see brief I
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
briefness
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Briefness — Brief ness (br[=e]f n[e^]s), n. The quality of being brief; brevity; conciseness in discourse or writing. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
briefness — See briefer. * * * … Universalium
briefness — noun The characteristic of being brief … Wiktionary
briefness — brief·ness || briËfnɪs n. quickness; brevity; shortness … English contemporary dictionary
briefness — brief·ness … English syllables
briefness — noun 1. the temporal property of being very short • Derivationally related forms: ↑brief • Hypernyms: ↑shortness 2. the attribute of being brief or fleeting • Syn: ↑brevity, ↑transience … Useful english dictionary
brevity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. concision, briefness, shortness, transientness. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. shortness, conciseness, concision, briefness, terseness, pointedness, pithiness, compression, succinctness, crispness,… … English dictionary for students
shortness — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of length Nouns 1. shortness, brevity, briefness, conciseness; shortening, abbreviation, abridgement, retrenchment, curtailment; compression, condensation, initialism, contraction; reduction,… … English dictionary for students
transience — noun 1. an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑transiency, ↑transitoriness • Derivationally related forms: ↑transitory (for: ↑transitoriness), ↑ … Useful english dictionary
short and sweet — {adj.} Brief and to the point. * /Henry s note to his father was short and sweet. He wrote, Dear Dad, please send me $5. Love, Henry. / … Dictionary of American idioms
