brevity

Meanings

• noun

  The quality of being concise and to the point; not unnecessarily long.

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Pronunciation

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Synonyms

ephemerality , fleetingness , transiency , concision , laconicism , terseness

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with brevity
debility , felicity , infancy , reality , solility

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Variants

List of all variants of brevity that leads to same result
brevities , brevity

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Etymology

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From Old French brevite, from breve 'short'.

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Trivia

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1. The shortest word in the English language is 'a', which is also the most commonly used word.

2. The longest word in the English language, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which means a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine silica particles.

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Related Concepts

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1. Conciseness: The quality of being brief and clear in expression.

2. Efficiency: The ability to accomplish a task with a minimum of wasted time or resources.

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Quotes

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1. Lincoln was able to achieve the loftiness, ideality, and "brevity" of the Gettysburg Address because he had spent a good part of the 1850s repeatedly relating all the most sensitive issues of the day to the Declaration's supreme principle.

   - Garry Wills,{it}Lincoln At Gettysburg{/it},1992

2. The book's "brevity" is its major defect. Admittedly, readers of military history have been smothered by portentous tomes of a thousand pages or more. But 365 pages are too few to tell the Normandy story.

   - Drew Middleton,{it}New York Times Book Review{/it},15 Aug. 1982

3. "Maudie, I'm sure I don't know what you mean," said Mrs. Merriweather. "I'm sure you do," Miss Maudie said shortly. She said no more. When Miss Maudie was angry, her "brevity" was icy.

   - Harper Lee,{it}To Kill a Mockingbird{/it},1960

4. Mike Espy resigned under pressure as Secretary of Agriculture yesterday at a news conference remarkable for its "brevity" and general absence of whining.

   - {it}New York Times{/it},4 Oct. 1994

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Culture

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Brevity is a valued quality in various aspects of life, including communication, writing, and art. It can convey importance and efficiency, and is often used in contrast to verbosity or redundancy.

How to Memorize "brevity"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine a short and compact object, like a briefcase or a compact car.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word with the idea of saving time or space.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Use the acronym B-R-E-V-I-T-Y to remember the meaning: Brief, Rapid, Effective, Valuable, Important, Timely, Yielding.

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