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Meanings of suddenness in English
The quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning.
Synonyms
Examples for "abruptness"
Examples for "abruptness"
1
The query came with such grave abruptness that Heald hesitated in reply.
2
He smiled at the abruptness with which the President of the C.L.S.
3
The rector was almost taken aback by the abruptness of the request.
4
The general instantly regretted that he had spoken with such cruel abruptness.
5
The weather had changed with the usual abruptness of our capricious climate.
1
The British had attacked without considering what results might follow their precipitancy.
2
The hand was withdrawn, evidently with some distressing consciousness of its precipitancy.
3
He did not, however, rush up to her with Alick's tactless precipitancy.
4
But such is the perennial foolishness and precipitancy of the Jardines.
5
We were in danger of ruining all by a needless precipitancy.
1
There was a desperate precipitance in the reply of Forrester:-
2
She knew that there was no precipitance-noinconsequence-withHim.
3
Those who had so long danced and disputed round his immobility were left breathless by his precipitance.
4
Of pomp, and proud precipitance of soul.
5
A little over-precipitance may ruin all.
1
It was to this that Zen had referred in speaking of Transley's precipitateness.
2
It is owing to a natural crudity and precipitateness of the imagination, which assimilates nothing properly to itself.
3
There would be no excuse; she could never again plead that she had been the victim of Transley's precipitateness.
4
In the corridor that morning Vona had shown that too much precipitateness alarmed her; he might go too far in five more stanzas.
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.
1
Mrs. Landry rose with precipitousness, and the beautiful lady, very red, followed.
2
The knoll fell away in bushy precipitousness to the plain below.
3
Their great anxiety to trade for powder indicated their lack of that article and partly explained the precipitousness of their retreat.
4
There is a river there called the Kaoma, running into the lake, the sides of which are similar in precipitousness to the rocks before us.'
Usage of suddenness in English
1
The conspirators were overwhelmed by the suddenness and fury of the attack.
2
We often underestimate the suddenness, even the randomness, of the change itself.
3
The suddenness of her appearance and something in her expression startled him.
4
The suddenness of the move gave them just the start they needed.
5
Speed, suddenness, the level of pain involved -these are all variables.
6
The suddenness, the freedom, the disrespect of the action were too much.
7
This terrible suddenness of attack commonly kills the victim on the instant.
8
But more things, and most grievous ones, were happening with equal suddenness.
9
With a bewildering suddenness and celerity the plan of the campaign developed.
10
The suddenness of this thing had thrown him momentarily off his balance.
11
One such fear must be the scale and suddenness of the phenomenon.
12
The suddenness and immensity of the catastrophe blinded these two listening children-souls.
13
And here the affair was ended with the suddenness of a thunder-clap.
14
The suddenness of the meeting surprised Kate into a look of astonishment.
15
Stunned by the suddenness of this joyful news the boys sat silent.
16
With the suddenness of a cat the outcast creature was upon him.
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common