precipitancy

precipitancy
/pri sip"i teuhn see/, n., pl. precipitancies.
1. the quality or state of being precipitant.
2. headlong or rash haste.
3. precipitancies, hasty or rash acts.
Also, precipitance.
[1610-20; PRECIPIT(ANT) + -ANCY]

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