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Hastiness vs. Haste — What's the Difference?

Hastiness vs. Haste — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Hastiness and Haste

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Hastiness

Done or made without due consideration or attention; precipitate or cursory
A hasty decision.
A hasty conclusion.

Haste

Excessive speed or urgency of movement or action; hurry
Working with feverish haste
I write in haste

Hastiness

Done or made rapidly due to pressing circumstances
Beat a hasty retreat.
Bid a hasty goodbye.

Haste

Archaic term for hasten

Hastiness

Acting with too much speed or haste; hurried
Don't be too hasty in taking sides.
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Haste

Rapidity of action or motion
The haste with which she climbed the stairs.

Hastiness

Impatient or rudely abrupt
"Oh, what would I not give if I had been less hasty with her! It is dreadful to remember that I spoke to her as a servant whom I expected to obey me" (Wilkie Collins).

Haste

Rash or headlong action; precipitateness
Forgot the tickets in their haste to catch the train.

Hastiness

The characteristic of being hasty.

Haste

To hasten or cause to hasten.

Hastiness

The quality or state of being hasty; haste; precipitation; rashness; quickness of temper.

Haste

Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
We were running late so we finished our meal in haste.

Hastiness

Overly eager speed (and possible carelessness);
He soon regretted his haste

Haste

(obsolete) Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.

Hastiness

Hasty impulsiveness

Haste

To urge onward; to hasten.

Haste

To move with haste.

Haste

Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; - applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals.
The king's business required haste.

Haste

The state of being urged or pressed by business; hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
I said in my haste, All men are liars.

Haste

To hasten; to hurry.
I 'll haste the writer.
They were troubled and hasted away.

Haste

Overly eager speed (and possible carelessness);
He soon regretted his haste

Haste

The act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner;
In his haste to leave he forgot his book

Haste

A condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry;
In a hurry to lock the door

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