hastiness
/'heistinis/
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Definition
- Noun:
- Hasty impulsiveness; rashness: The quality of acting or deciding too quickly, without sufficient thought or consideration, often leading to negative consequences.
- Excessive speed or urgency: The state of being done with overly eager speed, which can result in carelessness or mistakes.
Examples of Usage
- Noun:
- His hastiness in signing the contract led to significant financial losses. (He acted too quickly without reading the terms carefully.)
- She regretted the hastiness of her decision to quit her job. (She later wished she had thought more before resigning.)
- The project's failure was attributed to the team's hastiness, not a lack of resources. (The failure was due to rushing, not insufficient materials.)
Advanced Usage
- "with undue hastiness": acting with an inappropriate or excessive degree of rush.
- The bill was passed with undue hastiness, ignoring crucial debates.
- "a moment of hastiness": a single instance of acting rashly.
- In a moment of hastiness, he sent the angry email and immediately regretted it.
Variants and Related Words
- Hasty (adj): Done or acting with excessive speed or urgency; hurried.
- a hasty departure
- Haste (n): Excessive speed or urgency of movement or action; hurry.
- In his haste to leave, he forgot his keys.
Synonyms
- Rashness: Lack of careful consideration of the possible consequences of an action.
- Impulsiveness: The tendency to act suddenly without forethought.
- Precipitateness: The quality of being overly sudden or abrupt in action.
Antonyms
- Deliberation: Long and careful consideration or discussion.
- Circumspection: The quality of being wary and unwilling to take risks; prudence.
- Carefulness: The quality of giving serious attention and thought to avoiding harm or error.
Noun
- hasty impulsiveness
- overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
- he soon regretted his haste