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precipitance
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun precipitance has 1 sense
- precipitance(n = noun.attribute) abruptness, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness - the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning; Array is a kind of haste, hastiness, hurriedness, hurry, precipitation
Derived form adjective precipitant1
CIDE DICTIONARY
precipitance, n. [From Precipitant.].
The quality or state of being precipitant, or precipitate; headlong hurry; excessive or rash haste in resolving, forming an opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation; as, the precipitancy of youth. I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
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