Synonyms for brevity
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Transience
2. Conciseness — succinctness; conciseness
conciseness, concision, succinctness, terseness, laconicism, pithiness
Definitions
- n. 1
Succinctness; conciseness.
- n. 2
The quality of being brief in duration.
Related words
- Word family
- breve
Forms
- Plural
- brevities → transiences, briefnesses, concisions, tersenesses…
Example sentences
- concision The second tip is concision, or succinctly stating ideas.
- shortness Have you experienced shortness of breath recently?
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| brevity | steady | |
| conciseness | falling | |
| concision | rising | |
| shortness | rising | |
| ephemerality | rising | |
| pointedness | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 9 letters
- shortness2, concision, terseness2, briefness, pithiness
- 10 letters
- transience3, laconicism, transiency
- 11 letters
- conciseness, pointedness
- 12 letters
- ephemerality, succinctness, fleetingness
- 15 letters
- compendiousness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (shortness2 = 2 syllables).