Brevity

Noun

 * 1)  The quality of being brief in duration.
 * 2)  Succinctness; conciseness.
 * 3)  A short piece of writing.

Adjectives for Brevity
laconic; pregnant; voluble; algebraic; tabloid; reassuring cynical; businesslike; curt; characteristic; voluminous; fallacious; laudable.

Thesaurus
brachylogy, briefness, brusqueness, compactness, compendiousness, conciseness, concision, crispness, curtness, dumbness, economy, economy of words, instantaneousness, laconicalness, laconicism, laconism, littleness, lowness, muteness, obmutescence, pauciloquy, pithiness, pointedness, quietness, quietude, reserve, sententiousness, short time, shortness, silence, sparingness of words, speechlessness, succinctness, summariness, swiftness, taciturnity, terseness, transience, unloquaciousness, untalkativeness, wordlessness

Etymology
First attested in English in 1509; either:
 * from brevitatem:; or
 * from brevite:, from  brievete:; from  brevitas:, from brevis:.

Derived terms

 * brevitic
 * brevity is the soul of wit

Related terms

 * breve


 * brief