Precipitancy vs Inconsideration - What's the difference?
precipitancy | inconsideration | Related terms |
Suddenness; excessive haste.
* 1759 — ,
Lack of due consideration; inattention to consequences, thoughtlessness.
*, II.11:
*:new trained Souldiers, and such as are but novices in the trade, doe often headlong, and hand over head cast themselves into dangers, with more inconsideration , than afterward when they have seene and endured the first shocke, and are better trained in the schoole of perils.
Precipitancy is a related term of inconsideration.
As nouns the difference between precipitancy and inconsideration
is that precipitancy is suddenness; excessive haste while inconsideration is lack of due consideration; inattention to consequences, thoughtlessness.precipitancy
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(precipitancies)Theory of Moral Sentiments, page 337
- Though this involuntary falsehood may frequently be no mark of any want of veracity, of any want of the most perfect love of truth, it is always in some degree a mark of want of judgment, of want of memory, of improper credulity, of some degree of precipitancy and rashness.