Definition for Briefness:

• The quality of being brief; brevity; conciseness in discourse or writing.

Synonyms for Briefness:

• n.

  •attribute (noun)
  • briefness.
  •brevity (noun)
  • brevity.
  •briefness (noun)
  • transience.
  •conciseness (noun)
  • curtness,
  • brusqueness,
  • abruptness,
  • bluntness,
  • incisiveness,
  • conciseness,
  • shortness,
  • compactness.
  •transience (noun)
  • temporality,
  • impermanence,
  • evanescence,
  • fleetingness,
  • transition,
  • moment,
  • volatility,
  • instantaneousness.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • pithiness,
  • succinctness,
  • terseness.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abbreviated,
  • abridgement,
  • abridgment,
  • allow,
  • appropriate,
  • asceticism,
  • backlog,
  • bit,
  • book,
  • brittleness,
  • capsule,
  • changeover,
  • chasteness,
  • compaction,
  • compressing,
  • concentration,
  • concretion,
  • condensate,
  • condensing,
  • consequence,
  • constraint,
  • continuance,
  • contraction,
  • control,
  • conversion,
  • crispiness,
  • denseness,
  • densification,
  • density,
  • dispiritedness,
  • distance,
  • downheartedness,
  • dullness,
  • earmark,
  • economic system,
  • ephemerality,
  • ephemeralness,
  • excitability,
  • excitableness,
  • fastness,
  • gruffness,
  • here and now,
  • hold,
  • hush,
  • hush up,
  • immediacy,
  • immediateness,
  • impermanency,
  • import,
  • instancy,
  • instant,
  • jockey shorts,
  • legal brief,
  • low status,
  • low-spiritedness,
  • military reserve,
  • minute,
  • mo,
  • modesty,
  • modulation,
  • mutism,
  • nonindulgence,
  • passage,
  • pettiness,
  • precipitance,
  • precipitancy,
  • precipitateness,
  • precipitousness,
  • present moment,
  • quiet,
  • quieten,
  • quietness,
  • reservation,
  • resoluteness,
  • resolution,
  • resolve,
  • reticence,
  • saving,
  • second,
  • secrecy,
  • secretiveness,
  • shut up,
  • simpleness,
  • simplicity,
  • slow-wittedness,
  • smallness,
  • soundness,
  • speed,
  • steadiness,
  • steepness,
  • still,
  • stockpile,
  • substitute,
  • suddenness,
  • taciturnity,
  • temporalty,
  • thriftiness,
  • tightness,
  • tranquility,
  • tranquillity,
  • trenchancy,
  • truncation,
  • unpredictability,
  • dejectedness,
  • firmness of purpose,
  • second-stringer,
  • set aside.

Antonyms for Briefness:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    repetitiousness, volubility, repetitiveness, elongation, bigness, bulkiness, prolongation, growth, spread, talkativeness, expansion, lengthiness, wordiness, protraction, heftiness, tautology, diffuseness, stretching, largeness, pleonasm, greatness, extension.

Briefness Sentence Examples:

• It is ours alone to foresee the briefness of our days; it is ours alone anxiously to question the grave regarding the last sleep.

• There could be little doubt that the old shepherd had merely seen one of those shooting lights that in mountain districts, during unsettled weather, so frequently startle the night traveller, and that some peculiarity of form in the meteor had been exaggerated by the obscuring influence of the frost - rime and the briefness of the survey; but the apparition had filled his whole mind, as one of strange and frightful portent from the spiritual world.

Hyponym for Briefness:

• n.

  • attribute
    shortness.