Rashness vs Precipitancy - What's the difference?
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The quality of state of being rash; inconsiderate or presumptuous haste; headstrong precipitation in decision or action; temerity; unwarranted boldness.
Suddenness; excessive haste.
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Rashness is a related term of precipitancy.
As nouns the difference between rashness and precipitancy
is that rashness is the quality of state of being rash; inconsiderate or presumptuous haste; headstrong precipitation in decision or action; temerity; unwarranted boldness while precipitancy is suddenness; excessive haste.rashness
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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.
