Meaning

3 senses
  1. (uncountable)The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief.

    the shortness of a stubby pencil

    the patient's shortness of breath

    Kürze

    кра́ткостьkrátkostʹ

    the property of being truncated or short

  2. (countable)The result or product of being short.

    the condition of being short of something

  3. (uncountable)The property of being short or terse.

    I was chastened by the shortness of her reply.

    the property of being of short temporal extent

Examples

11 sentences
  1. Do you have shortness of breath?

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  2. Wherever there is length, there is shortness.

  3. Have you experienced shortness of breath recently?

    deSind Sie in letzter Zeit manchmal kurzatmig? — driini

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  4. The coronavirus could cause severe shortness of breath.

  5. How long have you been experiencing shortness of breath?

    ruДавно у Вас одышка? — marafon

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief:

Origin

From Middle English schortnesse, from Old English sċortnes, sċeortnys, equivalent to short

From Middle English schortnesse, from Old English sċortnes, sċeortnys, equivalent to short + -ness.

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Forms

plural: shortnesses
Singularshortness
Pluralshortnesses

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

1 related words
Relatedshort

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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