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Haste vs Precipitateness - What's the difference?

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Haste is a synonym of precipitateness.


As nouns the difference between haste and precipitateness

is that haste is speed; swiftness; dispatch while precipitateness is the state of being precipitate; hastiness.

As a verb haste

is to urge onward; to hasten.

haste

English

Noun

(-)
  • Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
    • We were running late so we finished our meal in haste .
  • * Bible, 1 Sam. xxi. 8
    • The king's business required haste .
  • (obsolete) Hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
  • * Bible, Psalms cxvi. 11
    • I said in my haste , All men are liars.

    Derived terms

    * hasten verb * hastily adverb * hastiness noun * hasty adjective * make haste * posthaste, post haste adverb

    Related terms

    * hurry * rush * scramble * scamper * scurry

    Verb

    (hast)
  • To urge onward; to hasten
  • To move with haste.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1594, author=, title=A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition), chapter=The Wounds of Civill War, edition= citation
    • , passage=The city is amaz'd, for Sylla hastes To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1825, author=Samuel Johnson, title=The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He hastes away to another, whom his affairs have called to a distant place, and, having seen the empty house, goes away disgusted by a disappointment which could not be intended, because it could not be foreseen. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=Past and Present, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Samson hastes not; but neither does he pause to rest. }}

    References

    Anagrams

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    precipitateness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of being precipitate; hastiness.
  • *1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 90:
  • *:At Khenchela, Ben Boulaid's men showed similar precipitateness .

    • Synonyms

    * haste