HURRIEDNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)