Meanings
plural precipitancies
- countableuncountableSuddenness; excessive haste.
Though this involuntary falſehood may frequently be no mark of any want of veracity, of any want of the moſt perfect love of truth, it is always in ſome degree a mark of want of judgment, of want of memory, of improper credulity, of ſome degree of precipitancy and raſhneſs.
1790, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments; […] In Two Volumes, 6th edition, volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell […]; Edinburgh: W[illiam] Creech, and J. Bell & Co., →OCLC, part VII, section IV (Of the Manner in which Different Authors have Treated of the Practical Rules of Morality), page 386Synonyms: precipitance, precipitation
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSuddenness; excessive haste.
More synonyms by meaning
nounthe quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning
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Origin
From precipitance + -y or precipitant + -cy.
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