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overhastiness

overhastiness noun: the quality of being overhasty.

Noun

overhastiness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being overhasty.
    • He adds a piece of information, which is very remarkable, as compared with the account given by Odeleben, of the manner in which Napoleon had passed the six weeks of the armistice, studying and reconnoitring, day after day, the country, the roads, passes, and productions of the districts between...1852, Friedrich Christoph Schlosser, History of the Eighteenth Century, Chapman and Hall, page 202
    • However the fresh appeal itself (which has been quite recently made) convinces us of the extreme overhastiness with which the statistical myth has been built up from deductions which cannot be relied upon.1887, Hermann Lotze, Microcosmus, Volume II1, T. and T. Clark, page 202

overhastiness meaning in Tamil

overhastiness in Tamil

படபடப்பு, பறவாதி

Examples of overhastiness in a sentence

  • Be it observed that I only say this to spurn the accusation of boldness and overhastiness!1895, Eugenie Marlitt, The Lady With the Rubies, E. A. Weeks and Company, Werner Company, page 326:
  • Gregory's sudden audacity appeared to some as grand, to others merely as the overhastiness of anger, pardonable on the score of exhausted patience, but not on that of prudence.1897, Ferdinand Adolf Gregorovius, History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages, G. Bell, page 145:
  • Ecclesiastics are, like other men, liable to occasional confusion of mind and, though I hope less often, to overhastiness in public utterance.1922, The North American Review, North American Review Corporation, O. Everett, page 733:

Origin of overhastiness

From overhasty + -ness.

Questions about overhastiness

What does overhastiness mean?
Overhastiness means the quality of being overhasty.
What is overhastiness in Tamil?
Overhastiness in Tamil is படபடப்பு, பறவாதி. See Overhastiness meaning in Tamil.
How do you use overhastiness in a sentence?
Be it observed that I only say this to spurn the accusation of boldness and overhastiness!
What part of speech is overhastiness?
Overhastiness is a noun.

Words near overhastiness in the dictionary

  1. overharvests
  2. overhaste
  3. overhasten
  4. overhastened
  5. overhastily
  6. overhastiness
  7. overhasty
  8. overhate
  9. overhated
  10. overhates
  11. overhating

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