See brevity in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:",
"text": "[B]revity is the soul of wit,\nAnd tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes[.]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"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": "quote"
},
{
"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": "quote"
}
],
"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"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɹɛvəti/",
"tags": [
"Canada",
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈbɹɛvəɾi]",
"tags": [
"Canada",
"US"
]
},
{
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɹevəti/",
"tags": [
"General-Australian",
"New-Zealand"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈbɹevəɾi]",
"tags": [
"General-Australian",
"New-Zealand"
]
}
],
"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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