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[ UK /bɹˈɛvɪti/ ]
[ US /ˈbɹɛvəti/ ]
NOUN
  1. the use of brief expressions
  2. the attribute of being brief or fleeting

How To Use brevity In A Sentence

  • Bacon aside, the condensed force and poignant brevity of whose aphoristic wisdom has no parallel in English, there is no other prosaist who possesses anything like Milton's command over the resources of our language. Milton
  • Their brevity has led to a system of text message abbreviations being devised, mixing numbers, symbols and capital letters.
  • Referred to simply as the Gothic Cruise (for brevity), this cruise is for fans of goth and industrial music and has been held annually for the past 15 years. Twilight Lexicon » Go Cruising Vampire Style
  • The sting of brevity is made much softer by the brilliant inclusion of a fully-operational level editor. Archive 2008-04-01
  • The sequence is thus all the more powerful for its brevity and understatement.
  • In the interests, I imagine, of brevity, those last two words have been omitted in later editions.
  • No-one ever said of Kallis, as Cardus did of Woolley, that his batting is the stuff of "soft airs and fresh flavours" nor does it even contain "the brevity of summer" which also accounted for Woolley's loveliness. The Kallis Conundrum
  • So you started out writing a 200K-word doorstop, and abandoned it in favor of brevity. Thoughts on The Last Colony « Whatever
  • Brevity is the soul of wit. 
  • Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
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