HASTINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hastiness mean? 

• HASTINESS (noun)
  The noun HASTINESS has 2 senses:

1. overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)

2. hasty impulsiveness

  Familiarity information: HASTINESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HASTINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

haste; hastiness; hurriedness; hurry; precipitation

Context example:

he soon regretted his haste

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

fastness; speed; swiftness (a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hastiness"):

abruptness; precipitance; precipitancy; precipitateness; precipitousness; suddenness (the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning)

Derivation:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hasty impulsiveness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

impulsiveness (the trait of acting suddenly on impulse without reflection)

Derivation:

hasty (excessively quick)