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The quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning
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precipitateness
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n. The state of being precipitate; hastiness. (from 17th c.)
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n. the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning [syn: abruptness , precipitance , precipitancy , suddenness ]
Usage examples of precipitateness.
By similar reasoning, we know that the canon of the Colorado is a very old region, though the precipitateness of its banks is due to the absence of rain, for a local water-supply would cut back the banks, having most effect where they were steepest, since at those points it would move with the greatest speed.