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Definition of Brevity
1. Noun. The use of brief expressions.
2. Noun. The attribute of being brief or fleeting.
Generic synonyms: Duration, Length
Derivative terms: Brief, Brief, Transient
Definition of Brevity
1. n. Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life.
Definition of Brevity
1. Noun. The quality of being brief in duration. ¹
2. Noun. Succinctness; conciseness. ¹
3. Noun. (rare countable) A short piece of writing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brevity
1. shortness of duration [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brevity
Literary usage of Brevity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tact in Court by Joseph Wesley Donovan (1898)
"brevity AS AN ART. BILLINGS says " When you strike ile, stop boring • many a man
has bored klean thru and let the ile run out at the bottom. ..."
2. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836)
"brevity OF THE GREEK AND ENGLISH COMPARED. As an instance of compression and
brevity in narration, unattainable in any language but the Greek, the following ..."
3. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1822)
"brevity," says Polonius, " is the soul of wit," and twenty men as wise as he have
said so after him. Truth, says Mr. Stephen Jones, the worthy compiler of ..."
4. Gabriele Zerbi, Gerontocomia: On the Care of the Aged, & Maximianus, Elegies ...by Gabriele de Zerbis, Levi Robert Lind by Gabriele de Zerbis, Levi Robert Lind (1988)
"... Foreknowledge of the brevity and Longevity of Life This especially must be
known to begin with that the fate of every creature in the world depends upon ..."
5. Essays and Marginalia by Hartley Coleridge (1851)
""brevity," says Polonius, "is the soul of wit," and twenty men as wise as he have
said so after him. " Truth," says Mr. Stephen Jones, the worthy compiler ..."
6. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1873)
"reading of Dindorf seems preferable, as more accordant with the brevity of
Thucydides, and the full idea may be elicited easily from ..."
7. Argumentation and Debating by William Trufant Foster (1908)
"brevity A lecturer on rhetoric in a Scotch university used to say to his class
at the ... Many other men have felt the force of brevity. ..."
8. The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry: Lectures Delivered in by Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1893)
"The first thing that we note is the brevity and simplicity. These marvellous
incidents, coming one after another, are told quite plainly, without the least ..."
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