hastiness

Other forms of hastiness

plural

hastinesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hastiness

What does hastiness mean?

hastiness means "overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hastiness?

hastiness has 3 syllables: ha-sti-ness. The stress falls on "ha".

What is another word for hastiness?

Close synonyms include haste, hurry, hurriedness, precipitation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hastiness a common word?

hastiness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.