character limit
Maximum message length
A character limit is the maximum number of letters, spaces, and symbols allowed in a text field or message.
Social media platforms impose character limits—Twitter's was famously 140 characters before doubling.
I had to cut my bio to fit the character limit.
The constraint forces brevity and sometimes creative abbreviation.
- textWritten or printed words
- text fieldData entry area
- countReckon a total
- maximumGreatest permitted quantity
- truncateCut off abruptly
overflow · restriction · boundary · typing · cap · constraint · tweet · SMS · 280 · length · exceed · remaining · cutoff · buffer · textarea · input · shortening · abbreviate
- social mediaposts, post, influencer status, followers, tweet
- constraintsconstraint, restrictions, deadline, restraints, bounds
- limitsprice ceiling, debt ceiling, maximum capacity, print size, display size
- form inputstext field, checkbox, text box, select, textarea
- journalismreporters, interview, editors, student editors, school paper
- messagingmessage, text, chat, send, reply
character limitno limit
Without a maximum
infinite space · open-ended · freeform · boundless · unconstrained
character, characters, characteristic, characteristics, characteristically, characterize, characterizes, characterized, characterizing