Briefness
1Briefness — Brief ness (br[=e]f n[e^]s), n. The quality of being brief; brevity; conciseness in discourse or writing. [1913 Webster] …
2briefness — noun see brief I …
3briefness — See briefer. * * * …
4briefness — noun The characteristic of being brief …
5briefness — brief·ness || briËfnɪs n. quickness; brevity; shortness …
6briefness — brief·ness …
7briefness — 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 …
8brevity — 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,… …
9shortness — 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,… …
10transience — noun 1. an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑transiency, ↑transitoriness • Derivationally related forms: ↑transitory (for: ↑transitoriness), ↑ …
