Usually means: Lack of height or length.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. shortness: Merriam-Webster
  2. shortness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shortness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. shortness: Vocabulary.com
  5. shortness: Wordnik
  6. shortness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. shortness: Wiktionary
  8. Shortness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. shortness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. shortness: Rhymezone
  11. Shortness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. shortness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. shortness: FreeDictionary.org
  14. shortness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. shortness: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. Shortness: Wordnik
  17. shortness: Dictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. shortness: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. shortness: Legal dictionary
  3. shortness: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shortness: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shortness: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shortness)

▸ noun:  (uncountable) The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief.
▸ noun:  (countable) The result or product of being short.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) The property of being short or terse.

Similar:
abruptness, curtness, brusqueness, gruffness, truncation, smallness, brevity, briefness, shortestness, short-leggedness, more...

Opposite:
tallness, height, longness, elongation, extension

Types:
petite, slim, athletic, average, tall, more...

Phrases:
hot shortness, cold shortness, shortness of breath, red shortness, shortness of time, more...

Adjectives:
hot, extreme, relative, severe, red, comparative, progressive, cold, acute, sudden, abnormal

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Similar:
abruptness, curtness, brusqueness, gruffness, truncation, smallness, brevity, briefness, shortestness, short-leggedness, more...

Opposite:
tallness, height, longness, elongation, extension

Types:
petite, slim, athletic, average, tall, more...

Phrases:
hot shortness, cold shortness, shortness of breath, red shortness, shortness of time, restlessness or shortness of temper, more...

Adjectives:
hot, extreme, relative, severe, red, comparative, progressive, cold, acute, sudden, abnormal



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