brevity
noun/ˈbɹɛvɪti/UK/ˈbɹɛvəti/CA/ˈbɹevəti/
Etymology
First attested in English in 1509; either: * Borrowed directly from Latin brevitās; or * from Anglo-Norman brevité, from Old French brieveté, from Latin brevitātem, accusative of brevitās, from brevis (“short”). By surface analysis, brief + -ity.
- derived from brevitātem
- derived from brieveté
- derived from brevité
- borrowed from brevitās
Definitions
The quality of being brief in duration.
Succinctness
Succinctness; conciseness.
- [B]revity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes[.]
- A good technical writing style will now be defined as a style possessing clarity, brevity, and variety.
A short piece of writing.
The neighborhood
- synonymfleetingness
- synonymtransiency
- synonymtransience
- synonymlaconicism
- synonymterseness
- synonymsuccinctness
- neighborbreve
- neighborbrief
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for brevity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA