Antonyms for brevity
ˈbrɛv ɪ tibrevi·ty

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1. brevity

   Antonyms:
   circumlocution, diffuseness, periphrasis, pleonasm, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, surplusage, tautology, tediousness, verbiage, verbosity, wordiness

   Synonyms:
   compactness, compression, conciseness, condensation, directness, plainness, shortness, succinctness, terseness

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1. brevity

   Antonyms:
   length, protraction, elongation, extension, prolixity, diffusiveness, tediousness

   Synonyms:
   shortness, closeness, conciseness, succinctness, terseness, compendiousness, pointedness, abbreviation, abridgment

Matched Categories

1. • Duration
   • Terseness

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. brevitynoun

   the use of brief expressions

   Synonyms:
   briefness, transience

2. brevity, briefness, transiencenoun

   the attribute of being brief or fleeting

   Synonyms:
   transitoriness, briefness, transiency, transience

How to use brevity in a sentence?

1. William Shakespeare:

   Brevity is the soul of wit.

2. Hosea Ballou:

   Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

3. Dejan Stojanovic:

   To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

4. Arthur Schopenhauer:

   How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

   What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

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