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"(countable) The result or product of being short."
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"text": "I was chastened by the shortness of her reply."
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"(uncountable) The property of being short or terse."
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"sense": "The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief",
"tags": [
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"word": "قِصَر"
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{
"code": "az",
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"sense": "The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief",
"word": "qısalıq"
},
{
"code": "da",
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"sense": "The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "korthed"
},
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief",
"word": "malalteco"
},
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"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief",
"word": "lühidus"
},
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"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief",
"word": "vähesus"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief",
"word": "lyhyys"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief",
"word": "täpäryys"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "exiguïté"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "curtidade"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Kürze"
},
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"code": "grc",
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"roman": "brakhútēs",
"sense": "The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "βραχύτης"
},
{
"code": "kl",
"lang": "Greenlandic",
"sense": "The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief",
"word": "naassuseq"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief",
"tags": [
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"word": "giorracht"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "giorra"
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jjalbeum",
"sense": "The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief",
"word": "짧음"
},
{
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "kurtî",
"sense": "The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief",
"word": "کورتی"
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{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "kutâhi",
"sense": "The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief",
"word": "کوتاهی"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "krátkostʹ",
"sense": "The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "кра́ткость"
},
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief",
"word": "korthet"
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief",
"word": "kısalık"
},
{
"code": "vo",
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"sense": "The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief",
"word": "bref"
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