Difference between Briefness and Brevity

What is the difference between Briefness and Brevity?

Briefness as a noun is the characteristic of being brief. while Brevity as a noun is the quality of being brief in duration.

Briefness

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The characteristic of being brief.

Brevity

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The quality of being brief in duration.Succinctness; conciseness.

Example sentence: There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say to 140 characters, and it's something that I quite enjoy attempting to do.

We hope you now know whether to use Briefness or Brevity in your sentence.

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