Definition of "briefness" [brief•ness]

• The characteristic of being brief. (noun)

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• "Here is a summary of the Sunday Round 17 games, please excuse the "briefness" of the resumes as I have just got in."
• "Lightly indeed his flesh sat upon his soul, and his soul, in its briefness of clarity, knew by its very clarity that the black of cessation was near."
• "But the briefness of that window is the primary reason they were doomed."