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Meanings of precipitateness in English

The quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning.

        Usage of precipitateness in English
        1
        It was to this that Zen had referred in speaking of Transley's precipitateness.
        Dennison Grant: A Novel of To-day
        2
        It is owing to a natural crudity and precipitateness of the imagination, which assimilates nothing properly to itself.
        The Bed-Book of Happiness / Being a colligation or assemblage of...
        3
        There would be no excuse; she could never again plead that she had been the victim of Transley's precipitateness.
        Dennison Grant: A Novel of To-day
        4
        In the corridor that morning Vona had shown that too much precipitateness alarmed her; he might go too far in five more stanzas.
        When Egypt Went Broke: A Novel
        5
        She had found him cursing, had kept him at bay, and he had already had evidence of the danger of precipitateness in her case.
        When Egypt Went Broke: A Novel
        Frequent collocations
        Precipitateness through the time