Synonyms for shortness
short·ness

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1. shortness

   Synonyms:
   brevity, compactness, compression, conciseness, condensation, directness, plainness, succinctness, terseness

   Antonyms:
   circumlocution, diffuseness, periphrasis, pleonasm, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, surplusage, tautology, tediousness, verbiage, verbosity, wordiness

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shortnessnoun

   the property of being of short spatial extent

   "the shortness of the Channel crossing"

   Synonyms:
   brusqueness, abruptness, truncation, gruffness, curtness

   Antonyms:
   longness, tallness

2. shortnessnoun

   the condition of being short of something

   "there was no shortness of money"; "can cause shortness of breath"

   Synonyms:
   brusqueness, abruptness, truncation, gruffness, curtness

   Antonyms:
   longness, tallness

3. shortness, truncationnoun

   the property of being truncated or short

   Synonyms:
   brusqueness, abruptness, truncation, gruffness, curtness

   Antonyms:
   tallness, longness

4. shortnessnoun

   the property of being of short temporal extent

   "the shortness of air travel time"

   Synonyms:
   brusqueness, abruptness, truncation, gruffness, curtness

   Antonyms:
   longness, tallness

5. shortnessnoun

   the property of being shorter than average stature

   Synonyms:
   brusqueness, abruptness, truncation, gruffness, curtness

   Antonyms:
   longness, tallness

6. abruptness, brusqueness, curtness, gruffness, shortnessnoun

   an abrupt discourteous manner

   Synonyms:
   steepness, gruffness, suddenness, precipitance, precipitousness, abruptness, precipitateness, truncation, precipitancy, brusqueness, hoarseness, huskiness, curtness

   Antonyms:
   longness, tallness

Matched Categories

1. • Discourtesy
   • Duration
   • Lack
   • Length
   • Stature

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1. shortnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   brevity, briefness, conciseness, laconism, inadequacy, deficiency, insufficiency, shortage, deficit

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1. List of paraphrases for "shortness":

   dyspnea, brevity

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1. Richard Levitan:

   Their X-ray's looked awful, their oxygen was terrible, and yet they're completely awake, alert on a cell phone, and they all said is they've been somewhat sick for days, and then only recently did they notice either shortness of breath or fatigue or something else.

2. Van Kerkhove:

   When we actually go back and we say how many of them were truly asymptomatic, we find out that many have really mild disease, they're not quote-unquote Covid symptoms -- meaning they may not have developed fever yet, they may not have had a significant cough, or they may not have shortness of breath -- but some may have mild disease.

3. Murtaza Akhter:

   They're coming in with fever, shortness of breath, cough, body aches and, at least for me, basically everybody I test is positive, it is ridiculous.

4. Alison Hedervary:

   I don’t have any more shortness of breath. I basically live a normal life, i don’t even think about having this disease whereas before I would worry about my breathing getting worse, but as Dr. Parambil has told me, ‘You can do anything you want to do,’ and I have.

5. Purvi Parikh:

   Most deaths from asthma come from uncontrolled asthma. Make sure your asthma is always well controlled by having your child on the correct preventative medications. Seeing an asthma specialist such as pulmonologist or allergist can also help, signs of uncontrolled asthma can sneak up on you, so be sure to know the symptoms of it : waking up at night, using your quick relief inhaler more than twice a week, needing oral or injected steroids one to two times per year, coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath -- all of these are signs your asthma is not controlled.