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Definition: Hastiness |
HastinessNoun1. Overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste". 2. Hasty impulsiveness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hastiness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: HastinessSynonyms: haste (n), hurriedness (n), hurry (n). (additional references) |
| "Hastiness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hastiness" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "hastiness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | nxitim (acceleration, bustle, haste, hurry, hustle, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitation, rapidity, rush), ngutje (hurry, hustle, precipitance, precipitancy). (various references) | |
Arabic | تسرع (haste, play fast and loose, precipitate, precipitation, rashness, rough and ready, run, scurry, slapdash), سرعة (alacrity, blast, career, despatch, dispatch, expedition, gait, haste, hurry, lick, pace, pizzazz, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, smartness, speed, spurt, swiftness, tilt, velocity), عجالة (haste). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сприхавост (irish, irritability, petulance, testiness), спешност (urgency), бързина (agility, celerity, dispatch, expedition, fastness, haste, lick, precipitance, promptitude, quickness, rapidity, readiness, speed, swiftness), прибързаност (haste, impetuosity, imprudence, precipitance, precipitation, prematurity, rashness). (various references) | |
Chinese | 翛 . (various references) | |
Czech | uspìchanost. (various references) | |
Finnish | hätäisyys (haste, hurry, impatience), pikaiisuus (quickness). (various references) | |
French | hâte (haste), précipitation (haste), accélération (haste). (various references) | |
German | eile (expedition, haste, hurriedness, hurry, hustle, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitation, rush, speed), Eilfertigkeit. (various references) | |
Greek | σπουδή (despatch rider, dispatch rider, haste, hurry, hustle, precipitance, speed, study). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פזיזות (foolhardiness, haste, impetuosity, impulsiveness, precipitancy, rashness, temerity, waywardness), חופז יות (hurry), חפזון (haste, headiness, hurry, precipitancy, precipitation, rush), מ"רות (impetuosity, rashness, temerity). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gyorsaság (agility, celerity, expedition, fastness, haste, pace, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, readiness, speed, swiftness, velocity), elhamarkodás. (various references) | |
Italian | irritabilit (excitability, irritability), impetuosit (eclat, impetuosity, vehemence), furia (anger, bluster, fureur, fury, haste, hurry, rabidity, rage, rampage, rush, temper, wax, wrath), fretta (haste, helter-skelter, hurry, rush). (various references) | |
Manx | siyrid (impatience, rapidness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | astinesshay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vivacidade (animation, bounce, brightness, color, colour, fervency, flotage, ginger, life, liveliness, mettle, nimbleness, quickness, quicksilver, raciness, readiness, snap, verve, vivacity, warmth), pressa (ado, bustle, haste, hurry, hustle, rustle, scurry, speed), precipitao (hurry, impolicy), arrebatamento (clutch, ecstasy, enchantment, enthusiasm, frenzy, grab, gush, impetuosity, inebriation, overjoy, rapture, rashness, ravishment, trance, transport). (various references) | |
Romanian | pripã (haste, hurry, quickness, rush), nerãbdare (anxiety, eagerness, impatience, petulance), grabã (cursoriness, dispatch, expedition, forwardness, haste, hurry, pelt, press, quickness, rapture, readiness, rush, scamper, speed), furie (anger, fierceness, frenzy, fury, ire, madness, mood, rage, shrew, temper, termagant, violence, wax, wrath). (various references) | |
Russian | поспешность (haste, precipitancy, precipitateness, scurrility). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | užurbanost (ado, bustle, flurry, hurry), prenagljenost (haste, precipitance, rashness, temerity). (various references) | |
Spanish | presura (haste, hurry, rush), impaciencia (eagerness, fretfulness, impatience, restiveness), apresuramiento (hurry, press). (various references) | |
Swedish | brådska (bustle, haste, hastle, hurry, precipitance, precipitation, press, rush). (various references) | |
Turkish | telaş (ado, alarm, bustle, commotion, directness, discomposure, disturbance, excitement, ferment, fever, flap, flurry, flutter, fume, fuss, fussiness, haste, helter-skelter, hurry, panic, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, pucker, racket, ruffle, rush, stir, storm, taking, tingle, tizzy, to-do, turmoil, whirl), gayret (Ardor, ardour, assiduity, conation, effort, endeavor, endeavour, energy, enthusiasm, exertion, fervency, fervor, fervour, go, industry, intentness, keenness, nerve, pep, push, sedulity, slog, snap, spurt, strenuousness, struggle, studiousness, tug, vim, zeal, zip), acelecilik (headiness, hurrying, impetuosity, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, rashness, speediness), aşırı çaba. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | квапливість (haste, hurry, precipitation, random), необачність (gaffe, haste, misdoing, negligence, oversight, precipitance, precipitancy), запальність (pepper, spirit, spunk, storminess, warmth), поспішність (haste, prematureness, prematurity, speeding). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự vội vã (haste), sự vội v ng (bustle, haste, hurry, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation), sự vội (cursoriness), sự thiếu suy nghĩ sự nóng nảy, sự nhanh chóng (rapidity, speediness), sự khinh suất (incaution, incautiousness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness), sự gấp rút sự hấp tấp. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hastiness": hastinesses. (additional references) | |
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"Hastiness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chestiness, Halstensen, Histiaeus, hostness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "hastiness" (pronounced 'Has"ti*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-n-s-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: anthesis, ashiness, hessians, sestinas, shanties, sheitans, sthenias. | |
-2 letters: ashiest, assents, entasis, hastens, hessian, nasties, sanseis, sestina, shantis, sheitan, siestas, sithens, snashes, snathes, stashes, sthenia, tansies, tassies, tisanes. | |
-3 letters: anises, assent, assets, assist, hanses, hasten, hastes, heists, hisses, insets, saints, saithe, sanest, sanies, sansei, sashes, sasins, satins, shanti, shiest, shines, shists, siesta, snathe, snaths. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-n-s-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: astonishes, standishes, trashiness. | |
+2 letters: anesthesias, enthusiasms, enthusiasts, ghastliness, hastinesses, starchiness, swarthiness, synesthesia. | |
+3 letters: anaesthesias, anesthetists, chattinesses, earthinesses, faintishness, gastightness, heartinesses, histaminases, kinesthesias, patchinesses, scratchiness, senatorships, shinplasters, stealthiness, straightness, synaesthesia, synaesthesis, synesthesias, trashinesses, waterishness. | |
+4 letters: astonishments, breathinesses, chastisements, earthlinesses, ethicalnesses, faithlessness, ghastlinesses, haughtinesses, healthinesses, heartsickness, lightfastness, naughtinesses, parasynthesis, seaworthiness, stablishments, starchinesses, statesmanship, stephanotises, swarthinesses, synaesthesias, threadinesses, throatinesses, wealthinesses. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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