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Briefness

Briefness \Brief"ness\ (br[=e]f"n[e^]s), n. The quality of being brief; brevity; conciseness in discourse or writing.

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briefness

n. The characteristic of being brief.

WordNet
briefness
  1. n. the temporal property of being very short

  2. the attribute of being brief or fleeting [syn: brevity, transience]

Usage examples of "briefness".

On anybody else, he would have found its clingingness, its briefness, utterly shocking, but he simply could not see Her in that way.