Construction loans are typically short term with a maximum of one year, and have variable rates that move up and down with the prime rate. The rates on this type of loan are higher than rates on permanent mortgage loans.
pleasantness - the feeling caused by agreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling. pleasure, pleasance - a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience; he was tingling with pleasure.
The noun brevity means shortness or conciseness. If you give a report on agriculture in the northern hemisphere in 3 minutes, you have done it with incredible brevity. Brevity comes from brevis, which means brief in Latin. You can use brevity for things that are literally short, like the brevity of an elevator meeting, or the quality of fleetingness, like the brevity of youth. Brevity is also a style of speaking or writing with economy.