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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