Synonyms of shortness

1 Syllable
miss, lack, stint, loss, dearth, want
2 Syllables
distress, smallness, slightness, default, defect, shortfall, shrinking
3 Syllables
reduction, deficit, privation, snappiness, depletion, shortage, paucity, shortcoming, curtailment, decrease, meagerness, retrenchment, scantiness, scarcity, poverty, absence, shrinkage
4 Syllables
exigency, deprivation, destitution, minuteness, petiteness, atomity, necessity, abridgement, exiguity, impatience
5 Syllables
inadequacy, inferiority, insufficience, insufficiency
6 Syllables
diminutiveness