PRECIPITANCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does precipitancy mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRECIPITANCY (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 ("precipitancy" 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 

But hurried on by the precipitancy of youth, and having his imperial majesty’s license to pay my attendance upon the emperor of Blefuscu, I took this opportunity, before the three days were elapsed, to send a letter to my friend the secretary, signifying my resolution of setting out that morning for Blefuscu, pursuant to the leave I had got; and, without waiting for an answer, I went to that side of the island where our fleet lay.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)