brevity

1. 1.

   the use of brief expressions

   Broaderterseness
2. 2.

   the attribute of being brief or fleeting

   Synonymsbriefnesstransience

   Broaderduration

Other forms of brevity

plural

brevities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about brevity

What does brevity mean?

brevity means "the use of brief expressions". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brevity?

brevity has 3 syllables: brev-i-ty. The stress falls on "brev". In IPA it is /ˈbɹɛvəti/.

What is another word for brevity?

Close synonyms include briefness, transience. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brevity a common word?

brevity is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.