Hypertext Webster Gateway: "precipitance"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Precipitance \Pre*cip"i*tance\, Precipitancy \Pre*cip"i*tan*cy\,
n. [From {Precipitant}.]
The quality or state of being precipitant, or precipitate;
headlong hurry; excessive or rash haste in resolving, forming
an opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation; as, the
precipitancy of youth. ``Precipitance of judgment.'' --I.
Watts.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
precipitance
n : the quality of happening with headlong haste or without
warning [syn: {abruptness}, {precipitateness}, {precipitancy},
{suddenness}]
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