Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: brevity
IPA transcription: [bɹ'ɛvəti]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: brevity
    Meaning: the use of brief expressions
  • Synonyms: brevity, briefness, transience
    Meaning: the attribute of being brief or fleeting
Usage examples
  • It is characterized by brevity and wealth of melody.)
  • I omit, for the sake of brevity, the numerous considerations which the professor adduces in support of what he calls, too modestly in my opinion, his Utopia.
  • For he has the perfectest idea of any of the particular sorts of substances, who has gathered, and put together, most of those simple ideas which do exist in it; among which are to be reckoned its active powers, and passive capacities, which, though not simple ideas, yet in this respect, for brevity's sake, may conveniently enough be reckoned amongst them.