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precipitancy

precipitancy noun: suddenness; excessive haste.

Noun

precipitancy (countable and uncountable, plural precipitancies)

  1. Suddenness; excessive haste.
    • 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.1790, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments; […] In Two Volumes, 6th edition, volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell […]; Edinburgh: W[illiam] Creech, and J. Bell & Co....

precipitancy meaning in Tamil

precipitancy in Tamil

குப்புற வீழ்வு, பதற்றப் பண்பு

Synonyms of precipitancy

Forms of precipitancy

pluralprecipitancies

Origin of precipitancy

From precipitance + -y or precipitant + -cy.

Questions about precipitancy

What does precipitancy mean?
Precipitancy means suddenness; excessive haste.
What is precipitancy in Tamil?
Precipitancy in Tamil is குப்புற வீழ்வு, பதற்றப் பண்பு. See Precipitancy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is precipitancy?
Precipitancy is a noun.
What is the plural of precipitancy?
The plural of precipitancy is precipitancies.

Words near precipitancy in the dictionary

  1. precipitable
  2. precipitable water
  3. precipitance
  4. precipitances
  5. precipitancies
  6. precipitancy
  7. precipitant
  8. precipitantly
  9. precipitantness
  10. precipitants
  11. precipitate

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