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brevitynoun the condition of being shortthe best quality a graduation speech can have is brevity briefness, conciseness, shortness abbreviation, abridgment(or abridgement), compression, condensation, contraction, curtailmentdecreasing, diminishing, lessening, reducing, shortening, shrinkingabruptness, brusqueness, curtnesscompendiousness, crispness, laconism, pithiness, succinctness, tautness, tersenesslittleness, minuteness, smallness, tininess lengthiness extensivenesselongating, elongation, extending, extension, prolongation, prolonging, protraction, stretchingexpansion, growth, spreaddiffuseness, garrulousness, long-windedness, prolixity, talkativeness, talkiness, verboseness, volubility, wordinessbigness, bulkiness, greatness, heftiness, largeness the quality or state of being marked by or using only few words to convey much meaningif brevity is the soul of wit, then that speech wasn't at all witty briefness, compactness, conciseness, concision, crispness, pithiness, sententiousness, succinctness, terseness abruptness, bluntness, brusqueness, curtness, shortness diffuseness, long-windedness, prolixity, verbosity, wordiness periphrasis, pleonasm, redundancy, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, tautology in the 15th century |