Synonyms for shortness
short·ness

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1. shortness

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

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

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1. shortnessnoun

   the property of being of short spatial extent

   "the shortness of the Channel crossing"

   Synonyms:
   brusqueness, abruptness, truncation, gruffness, curtness

   Antonyms:
   longness, tallness

2. shortnessnoun

   the condition of being short of something

   "there was no shortness of money"; "can cause shortness of breath"

   Synonyms:
   brusqueness, abruptness, truncation, gruffness, curtness

   Antonyms:
   longness, tallness

3. shortness, truncationnoun

   the property of being truncated or short

   Synonyms:
   brusqueness, abruptness, truncation, gruffness, curtness

   Antonyms:
   tallness, longness

4. shortnessnoun

   the property of being of short temporal extent

   "the shortness of air travel time"

   Synonyms:
   brusqueness, abruptness, truncation, gruffness, curtness

   Antonyms:
   longness, tallness

5. shortnessnoun

   the property of being shorter than average stature

   Synonyms:
   brusqueness, abruptness, truncation, gruffness, curtness

   Antonyms:
   longness, tallness

6. abruptness, brusqueness, curtness, gruffness, shortnessnoun

   an abrupt discourteous manner

   Synonyms:
   steepness, gruffness, suddenness, precipitance, precipitousness, abruptness, precipitateness, truncation, precipitancy, brusqueness, hoarseness, huskiness, curtness

   Antonyms:
   longness, tallness

Matched Categories

1. • Discourtesy
   • Duration
   • Lack
   • Length
   • Stature

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1. shortnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   brevity, briefness, conciseness, laconism, inadequacy, deficiency, insufficiency, shortage, deficit

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1. List of paraphrases for "shortness":

   dyspnea, brevity

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1. Purvi Parikh:

   Most deaths from asthma come from uncontrolled asthma. Make sure your asthma is always well controlled by having your child on the correct preventative medications. Seeing an asthma specialist such as pulmonologist or allergist can also help, signs of uncontrolled asthma can sneak up on you, so be sure to know the symptoms of it : waking up at night, using your quick relief inhaler more than twice a week, needing oral or injected steroids one to two times per year, coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath -- all of these are signs your asthma is not controlled.

2. Philip Skelton:

   History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.

3. Alison Hedervary:

   I don’t have any more shortness of breath. I basically live a normal life, i don’t even think about having this disease whereas before I would worry about my breathing getting worse, but as Dr. Parambil has told me, ‘You can do anything you want to do,’ and I have.

4. Whitney Gregory:

   The fatigue, shortness of breath and headaches are too much for me to get through the day, i would never be able to keep up with the fast pace of the ER. I feel like a shell of Whitney Gregory.

5. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus:

   In about 14 % of cases, the virus causes severe diseases including pneumonia and shortness of breath. And about 5 % of patients have critical diseases including respiratory failure, septic shock and multiorgan failure, in 2 % of reported cases, the virus is fatal, and the risk of death increases the older you are. We see relatively few cases among children. More research is needed to understand why.