brevity's
Belonging to succinctness
Brevity's is the possessive form of brevity, the quality of being brief or concise.
It appears most often in the phrase brevity's sake: For brevity's sake, I'll skip the details.
The construction allows brevity itself to have interests or benefits, as if conciseness were a virtue deserving accommodation.
Quality of being brief
- tersenessExtreme brevity of expression
- pithinessTerse, meaningful expression
- shortnessLack of length
- economySystem of trade and production
compactness · crispness · laconicism · condensation · precision · directness · spareness · tightness
Clever, inventive humor
- aphorismTerse general truth
- epigramPithy, memorable saying
- maximBrief moral principle
- proverbTraditional saying expressing truth
haiku · telegram · headline · slogan · tagline · caption · quip · motto
Quality of passing quickly
- transienceBrevity of existence
- shortnessLack of length
- ephemeralityCondition of being brief
- impermanenceQuality of not lasting
momentariness · evanescence · passing · swiftness · quickness · temporariness · transitoriness · perishability
succinctness
Quality of being brief
economy · compactness · crispness · laconicism · condensation · precision · directness · spareness · tightness · minimalism
wit
Clever, inventive humor
proverb · haiku · telegram · headline · slogan · tagline · caption · quip · motto · adage
fleetingness
Quality of passing quickly
- transienceBrevity of existence
- shortnessLack of length
- ephemeralityCondition of being brief
impermanence · momentariness · evanescence · passing · swiftness · quickness · temporariness · transitoriness · perishability · mortality