- the property of being of short spatial extent;
"the shortness of the Channel crossing"
- the condition of being short of something;
"there was no shortness of money" "can cause shortness of breath"
- the property of being truncated or short
- the property of being of short temporal extent;
"the shortness of air travel time"
- the property of being shorter than average stature
- an abrupt discourteous manner