precipitance

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   excessive or reckless haste in action or judgment; precipitancy

   Her precipitance in leaving immediately meant that essential business went unfinished.

Formed from precipitant + -ance. The word family goes back to Latin praecipitare ("throw headlong") and praeceps ("headlong"), so physical headlong motion supplied the metaphor for rash or excessive haste.

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