precipitance

HYPHEN

pre=cip=i=tance

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun precipitance has 1 sense

precipitance(n = noun.attribute) abruptness, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness - the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning;

is a kind of haste, hastiness, hurriedness, hurry, precipitation

Derived form adjective precipitant₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

precipitance, n. [From Precipitant.].

The quality or state of being precipitant, or precipitate; headlong hurry; excessive or rash haste in resolving, forming an opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation; as, the precipitancy of youth. I. Watts. [1913 Webster]