shortness
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- noun
- /ˈʃɔrt.nəs/
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brevedad
- The shortness of the meeting surprised everyone, leaving little time for discussion.
- shortness of time
And I'm going to read you a little passage from his his work on the shortness of life.
- And I'm going to read you a little passage from his his work on the shortness of life.
- The urge to step back, to consider the shortness of our lives and the smallness and our smallness in the cosmos.
- And it's telling us a little bit about the shortness of life and about how contingent everything is and how we ought to comport ourselves.
- And so just build some kind of a routine to remind you on the shortness of life so that you tell the people you love how you feel about them.
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Unfortunately, the shortness of his article precludes him from developing this further.
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I have missed the sounds and smells of fall and winter, and the slower, quieter pace that comes with the shortness of days.
Blog text (24) -
I would actually say we should think more about death when we start thinking about the shortness of life.
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And so just build some kind of a routine to remind you on the shortness of life so that you tell the people you love how you feel about them.
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So the shortness of life and building intimacy with your MET mortality is incredibly, incredibly important in the book.
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And it's telling us a little bit about the shortness of life and about how contingent everything is and how we ought to comport ourselves.
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The urge to step back, to consider the shortness of our lives and the smallness and our smallness in the cosmos.
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In contrast, the shortness of the Binet items and their great variations in content help the tester to catch and hold the child's attention.
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Given the typical shortness of Chandler's sentences or T-units, it makes sense to ask what is missing: what does Chandler not include in his sentences that some other sort of professional writer might include?
Academic text (2005) -
The shortness of the time frame, considering the problems that have to be overcome, demonstrates a lack of comprehension of and appreciation for the depth of Africa's marginalization and crisis.
Academic text (1995)
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Etymology
Shortness comes from the word short, meaning 'not long' or 'brief'. When time, speech, or distance is 'cut short' it is small in length, so shortness means the state of being brief or short in extent.