<p><strong>noun</strong></p><ul><li>shortness of time or duration; briefness: the brevity of human life.</li><li>the quality of expressing much in few words; terseness: Ironically, it is long-winded Polonius in Shakespeare's <em>Hamlet</em> who famously says that brevity is the soul of wit.</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms</strong></p><ul><li>pithiness</li><li>succinctness</li><li>compactness</li></ul><p><strong>Antonyms</strong></p><ul><li>length</li></ul>