PRECIPITANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does precipitance mean? 

• PRECIPITANCE (noun)
  The noun PRECIPITANCE has 1 sense:

1. the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning

  Familiarity information: PRECIPITANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRECIPITANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

abruptness; precipitance; precipitancy; precipitateness; precipitousness; suddenness

Hypernyms ("precipitance" is a kind of...):

haste; hastiness; hurriedness; hurry; precipitation (overly eager speed (and possible carelessness))

Derivation:

precipitant (done with very great haste and without due deliberation)

 Context examples 

A little over-precipitance may ruin all.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At least, therefore, I did not assume the character of needless precipitance merely to show off before the ladies.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

When you told Mrs. Bennet this morning that if you ever resolved upon quitting Netherfield you should be gone in five minutes, you meant it to be a sort of panegyric, of compliment to yourself—and yet what is there so very laudable in a precipitance which must leave very necessary business undone, and can be of no real advantage to yourself or anyone else?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)