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Shortness   /ʃˈɔrtnəs/   Listen
Shortness

noun
1.
The property of being of short spatial extent.
2.
The condition of being short of something.  "Can cause shortness of breath"
3.
The property of being truncated or short.  Synonym: truncation.
4.
The property of being of short temporal extent.
5.
The property of being shorter than average stature.
6.
An abrupt discourteous manner.  Synonyms: abruptness, brusqueness, curtness, gruffness.



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"Shortness" Quotes from Famous Books



... crowded with people, most of whom were coming back to their own country after an exile in Africa among un-Christian and dangerous things. The little children who had not yet known Europe, having been born beyond the sea, were full of wonder; but their parents, who knew the shortness of human life and its trouble, were happy because they had come back at last and saw before them the known jetties and the familiar hills of home. As I was surrounded by so much happiness, I myself felt as though I had come to the end of a long journey ...
— On Nothing & Kindred Subjects • Hilaire Belloc
... mercilessly condemned the exponent of Edison's invention, because the savant, listening to a phonograph for the first time, could not believe that it was anything else than ventriloquism! Instances of this kind are sufficiently numerous and recent not to be forgotten, in spite of the shortness of human memory. ...
— Reincarnation - A Study in Human Evolution • Th. Pascal
... will, I have little doubt, lead to his seconding (quite innocently) the precautions that I am taking for my own safety. The shortness of the time at our disposal on Monday will oblige him to pay his bill at the hotel and to remove his luggage before the marriage ceremony takes place. All I ask him to do beyond this is to take the luggage himself to the Southeastern (so as to make any inquiries useless ...
— Armadale • Wilkie Collins
... away the case. Why do women wear the present fascinating gowns, in which the lithe figure is suggested in all its womanly dignity? In order that they may appear to be tall. That is to say, because it is the fashion to be tall; women born in the mode are tall, and those caught in a hereditary shortness endeavor to conform to the stature of ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... frequent but not constant early symptom in the form of "stitch in the side," or pain between or beneath the shoulder blades, or in the region of the breastbone. This pain is due to pleurisy accompanying the tuberculosis. Shortness of breath on exertion is present when consumption is well established, but is not so common as an early symptom. The voice is often somewhat hoarse or husky at the onset of ...
— The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) • Various


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