Definition of Shortness

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Shortness

The quality or state of being short; want of reach or extension; brevity; deficiency; as, the shortness of a journey; the shortness of the days in winter; the shortness of an essay; the shortness of the memory; a shortness of provisions; shortness of breath.

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Shortness Quotations

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
Lewis Mumford

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Baltasar Gracian

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
Jean de la Bruyere

The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose.
Hudson Stuck

Shortness Translations

shortness in Latin is brevitas

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