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IMPULSIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impulsiveness mean? 

IMPULSIVENESS (noun)
  The noun IMPULSIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. the trait of acting suddenly on impulse without reflectionplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


IMPULSIVENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The trait of acting suddenly on impulse without reflection

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

thoughtlessness; unthoughtfulness (the trait of not thinking carefully before acting)

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

impetuosity; impetuousness (rash impulsiveness)

hastiness (hasty impulsiveness)

Derivation:

impulsive (characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation)

impulsive (determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason)

impulsive (without forethought)

impulsive (proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus)


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