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HURRIEDNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
Example:
he soon regretted his haste
Synonyms:
haste; hastiness; hurriedness; hurry; precipitation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("hurriedness" is a kind of...):
fastness; speed; swiftness (a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hurriedness"):
abruptness; precipitance; precipitancy; precipitateness; precipitousness; suddenness (the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning)
Derivation:
hurried (moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste)
