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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning;
[syn: abruptness, precipitateness, precipitousness, precipitance, precipitancy, suddenness]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Precipitance \Pre*cip"i*tance\, Precipitancy \Pre*cip"i*tan*cy\, 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. "Precipitance of judgment." --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

precipitance n 1: the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning [syn: abruptness, precipitateness, precipitousness, precipitance, precipitancy, suddenness]