Meaning of Brevity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The quality of being brief in duration.
   uncountable
2. Succinctness; conciseness.
   uncountable
3. A short piece of writing.
   countable, rare

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“[B]revity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes[.]”

“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.”

“A good technical writing style will now be defined as a style possessing clarity, brevity, and variety.”

CEFR level