Definition of Brevity

Brev´i`ty
n.1.Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life.
2.Contraction into few words; conciseness.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
- Shak.


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brachylogy, brusqueness, compactness, compendiousness, conciseness, concision, crispness, curtness, dumbness, economy, economy of words, instantaneousness, laconicalness, laconicism, laconism, littleness, lowness, muteness, obmutescence, pauciloquy, pithiness, pointedness, quietness, quietude, reserve, sententiousness, short time, shortness, silence, sparingness of words, speechlessness, succinctness, summariness, swiftness, taciturnity, terseness, transience, unloquaciousness, untalkativeness, wordlessness


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