"brevity" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈbɹɛvəti/ [UK] Audio: en-us-brevity.ogg [US] Forms: brevities [plural]
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”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*mreǵʰ-}}, {{bor|en|la|brevitās}} Latin brevitās, {{der|en|xno|brevité}} Anglo-Norman brevité, {{der|en|fro|brieveté}} Old French brieveté, {{der|en|la|brevitātem}} Latin brevitātem, {{m|la|brevitās}} brevitās, {{m|la|brevis||short}} brevis (“short”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} brevity (countable and uncountable, plural brevities)
  1. (uncountable) The quality of being brief in duration. Tags: uncountable Synonyms (quality of being brief in duration): ephemerality Translations (the quality of being brief in duration): βραχύτης (brakhútēs) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), кракост (krakost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), краткотрайност (kratkotrajnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), brevetat [feminine] (Catalan), krátkost [feminine] (Czech), lyhytaikaisuus (Finnish), lyhytkestoisuus (Finnish), concision [feminine] (French), brièveté [feminine] (French), brevidade [feminine] (Galician), Kürze [feminine] (German), βραχύτητα (vrachýtita) [feminine] (Greek), gairide [feminine] (Irish), giorracht [feminine] (Irish), brevità [feminine] (Italian), brevitās [feminine] (Latin), korthet (Norwegian Bokmål), stuttleik (Norwegian Nynorsk), brevitat [feminine] (Occitan), ایجاز (ijâz) (Persian), brevidade [feminine] (Portuguese), кра́ткость (krátkostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), brevedad [feminine] (Spanish), korthet (Swedish), kaigsian (Tagalog), kısalık (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-brevity-en-noun-9di5VIkl Disambiguation of 'quality of being brief in duration': 98 1 1 Disambiguation of 'the quality of being brief in duration': 99 1 1
  2. (uncountable) Succinctness; conciseness. Tags: uncountable Synonyms (succinctness): concision Translations (succinctness; conciseness): сбитост (sbitost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), stručnost [feminine] (Czech), ytimekkyys (Finnish), lyhytsanaisuus (Finnish), concision [feminine] (French), laconisme [masculine] (French), Bündigkeit [feminine] (German), Knappheit [feminine] (German), achomaireacht [feminine] (Irish), coimre [feminine] (Irish), brevità [feminine] (Italian), brevitās [feminine] (Latin), кра́ткость (krátkostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), лакони́чность (lakoníčnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), concisión [feminine] (Spanish), özlülük (Turkish), сти́слість (stýslistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-brevity-en-noun-9IRsgjqO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 63 17 Disambiguation of 'succinctness': 4 93 2 Disambiguation of 'succinctness; conciseness': 2 97 1
  3. (rare, countable) A short piece of writing. Tags: countable, rare
    Sense id: en-brevity-en-noun-dExKFoAw
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fleetingness, transiency, transience, laconicism, terseness, succinctness Derived forms: brevitic, brevity is the soul of wit Related terms: breve, brief

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2005, Bill Bryson, A short history of nearly everything",
          "text": "Thanks to Global Positioning Systems we can see that Europe and North America are parting at about the speed a fingernail grows—roughly two yards in a human lifetime. If you were prepared to wait long enough, you could ride from Los Angeles all the way up to San Francisco. It is only the brevity of lifetimes that keeps us from appreciating the changes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The quality of being brief in duration."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "brief",
          "brief"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) The quality of being brief in duration."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1856 June 14, “Head and Tail”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 2, number 33, London: John W. Parker and Son, page 142",
          "text": "Whenever a public question comes to such a crisis that the opportunities for individual intervention are reduced to the smallest possible compass, Mr. Roebuck is sure to step in with a formula, summing up the case with indignant brevity, censuring somebody, or panegyrizing somebody.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1966, Jackson E. Morris, Principles of scientific and technical writing",
          "text": "A good technical writing style will now be defined as a style possessing clarity, brevity, and variety.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Succinctness; conciseness."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Succinctness",
          "succinctness"
        ],
        [
          "conciseness",
          "conciseness"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) Succinctness; conciseness."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A short piece of writing."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, countable) A short piece of writing."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɹɛvəti/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-brevity.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5e/En-us-brevity.ogg/En-us-brevity.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/En-us-brevity.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "quality of being brief in duration",
      "word": "ephemerality"
    },
    {
      "word": "fleetingness"
    },
    {
      "word": "transiency"
    },
    {
      "word": "transience"
    },
    {
      "sense": "succinctness",
      "word": "concision"
    },
    {
      "word": "laconicism"
    },
    {
      "word": "terseness"
    },
    {
      "word": "succinctness"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "krakost",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "кракост"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "kratkotrajnost",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "краткотрайност"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brevetat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "krátkost"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "word": "lyhytaikaisuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "word": "lyhytkestoisuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "concision"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brièveté"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brevidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Kürze"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "vrachýtita",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "βραχύτητα"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "brakhútēs",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "βραχύτης"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gairide"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "giorracht"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brevità"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brevitās"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "word": "korthet"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "word": "stuttleik"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brevitat"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "ijâz",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "word": "ایجاز"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brevidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "krátkostʹ",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "кра́ткость"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brevedad"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "word": "korthet"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "word": "kaigsian"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "the quality of being brief in duration",
      "word": "kısalık"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sbitost",
      "sense": "succinctness; conciseness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "сбитост"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "succinctness; conciseness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "stručnost"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "succinctness; conciseness",
      "word": "ytimekkyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "succinctness; conciseness",
      "word": "lyhytsanaisuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "succinctness; conciseness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "concision"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "succinctness; conciseness",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "laconisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "succinctness; conciseness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Bündigkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "succinctness; conciseness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Knappheit"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "succinctness; conciseness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "achomaireacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "succinctness; conciseness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "coimre"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "succinctness; conciseness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brevità"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "succinctness; conciseness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brevitās"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "krátkostʹ",
      "sense": "succinctness; conciseness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "кра́ткость"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "lakoníčnostʹ",
      "sense": "succinctness; conciseness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "лакони́чность"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "succinctness; conciseness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "concisión"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "succinctness; conciseness",
      "word": "özlülük"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "stýslistʹ",
      "sense": "succinctness; conciseness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "сти́слість"
    }
  ],
  "word": "brevity"
}

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