Synonyms of the word

shortness

• n. (uncountable) The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief.
• n. (countable) The result or product of being short.

abruptness

• n. The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.
• n. Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence.

brusqueness

• n. The state or quality of being brusque.

curtness

• n. The state of being curt.

deficiency

• n. (uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
• n. (countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
• n. (geometry) The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves…
• n. (geometry) The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.

discourtesy

• n. Lack of courtesy; rudeness.
• n. A rude act.

duration

• n. An amount of time or a particular time interval.
• n. (in the singular, not followed by "of") The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the…
• n. (finance) A measure of the sensitivity of the price of a financial asset to changes in interest rates,…

gruffness

• n. The characteristic or quality of being gruff.

height

• n. The distance from the base of something to the top.
• n. The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the…
• n. The highest point or maximum degree.
• n. A mountain, especially a very high one.
• n. (Sussex) An area of land at the top of a cliff.

lack

• n. (obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
• n. A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
• v. (transitive) To be without, to need, to require.
• v. (intransitive) To be short (of or for something).
• v. (intransitive) To be in want.
• v. (obsolete) To see the ‘lack’ in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.

length

• n. The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
• n. duration.
• n. (horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
• n. (mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
• n. (cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
• n. (figuratively) Total extent.
• n. Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
• v. (obsolete) To lengthen.

lowness

• n. The property of being low.
• n. (countable) Something that is low or vulgar.

rudeness

• n. The property of being rude.
• n. A rude remark or behaviour.

stature

• n. A person or animal's natural height when standing upright.
• n. Respect coming from achievement or development.

truncation

• n. The act of truncating or shortening (in all senses).
• n. (mathematics) The removal of the least significant digits from a decimal number.
• n. (geometry) The replacement of a solid angle by a plane (or a similar operation in other dimensions).

want

• v. (transitive) To wish for or to desire (something).
• v. (intransitive, now dated) To be lacking, not to exist.
• v. (transitive) To lack, not to have (something).
• v. (transitive, colloquially with verbal noun as object) To be in need of; to require (something).
• v. (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
• n. (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
• n. (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence.
• n. (uncountable) Poverty.
• n. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
• n. (Britain, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.