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Precipitancy vs Venturesomeness - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between precipitancy and venturesomeness

is that precipitancy is suddenness; excessive haste while venturesomeness is the degree or quality of being venturesome.

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

    venturesomeness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The degree or quality of being venturesome.
  • *1899: Joseph Conrad, Youth And Two Other Stories [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=178365160&tag=Conrad,+Joseph,+1857-1924:+Youth+And+Two+Other+Stories,+1899&query=+venturesomeness&id=ConYout]
  • *:Somebody must lead the way. I just showed that the thing could be done; but you men brought up to the use of steam cannot conceive the vast importance of my bit of venturesomeness to the Eastern trade of the time.