HURRIEDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hurriedness mean? 

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

1. overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HURRIEDNESS (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 ("hurriedness" is a kind of...):

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

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

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

Derivation:

hurried (moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste)