Shortness

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  • n. The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief.
  • n. The result or product of being short.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The quality or state of being short; want of reach or extension; brevity; deficiency.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The quality or state of being short.
  • n. Fewness of words; brevity; conciseness.
  • n. Want of reach, or of the power of retention: as, the shortness of the memory.
  • n. Deficiency; imperfection; limited extent; poverty: as, the shortness of our reason; shortness of provisious.
  • n. Curtness; sharpness: as, her temper was evident from the shortness of her answers.
  • n. Brittleness; friability; crispness.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the property of being of short temporal extent
  • n. the condition of being short of something
  • n. the property of being truncated or short
  • n. the property of being of short spatial extent
  • n. the property of being shorter than average stature
  • n. an abrupt discourteous manner
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    deficiency    lack    want    lowness    length   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    brevity    deficiency   
    Verb Stem
    short   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    dyspnoea    dizziness    breathlessness    smallness    faintness   
     
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