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Precipitancy vs Urgency - What's the difference?

precipitancy | urgency |

As nouns the difference between precipitancy and urgency

is that precipitancy is suddenness; excessive haste while urgency is the quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.

precipitancy

English

Noun

(precipitancies)
  • Suddenness; excessive haste.
  • * 1759 — , 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.

    Synonyms

    * precipitance * precipitation

    Related terms

    * precipice

    urgency

    English

    Noun

    (urgencies)
  • The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 24 , author=David Ornstein , title=Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Arsenal lacked urgency and inspiration until shortly before half-time, Wheater's block denying Van Persie from close range before Walcott drilled wide.}}