OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 25392

brevity

/ˈbɹɛvɪti/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
brevedad
The quality of being brief in duration.
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 p…
concisión
Succinctness; conciseness.
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 wi…
[B]revity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes[.]
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