brevity

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈbɹɛvɪti/|/ˈbɹɛvəti/    美 /ˈbɹɛvəti/|[ˈbɹɛvəɾi]|[ˈbɹɛvɾi]|/ˈbɹevəti/|[ˈbɹevəɾi]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality of being brief in duration. uncountable
    — Thanks to Global Positioning Systems we can see that Europe and North America are parting at about the speed a fingernail grows—roughly two yards in a human lifetime. If you were prepared to wait long enough, you could ride from Los Angeles all the way up to San Francisco. It is only the brevity of lifetimes that keeps us from appreciating the changes.
  2. Succinctness; conciseness. uncountable
    — [B]revity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes[.]
  3. A short piece of writing. countable,rare

词形变化

brevities plural

词汇关系

近义词
fleetingness transiency laconicism terseness
衍生词
brevitic brevity code brevity is the soul of wit
相关词
breve brief

词源

First attested in English in 1509; either:
* Borrowed directly from Latin brevitās; or
* from Anglo-Norman brevité, from Old French brieveté, from Latin brevitātem, accusative of brevitās, from brevis (“short”).
By surface analysis, brief + -ity.
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