Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or quality of being precipitous or steep: steepness.
- n. Hastiness; precipitation; rash haste.
Wiktionary
- n. The state or quality of being precipitous.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the property possessed by a slope that is very steep
- n. the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning
Etymologies
- precipitous + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Remember, it indicates the precipitousness of the rise in blood sugar—and keeping it steady is the name of the game.”
“And I use him as an example, because what I'm concerned about is the precipitousness of him getting on the watch list, May of 2008, around the time that he was investigating one of our agencies in DHS.”
“And I use him as an example because what I'm concerned about is the precipitousness of him getting on the watch list, May of 2008, around the time that he was investigating one of our agencies in DHS.”
“And I use him as an example, because what I'm concerned about is the precipitousness of him getting on the watch list May of 2008, around the time that he was investigating one of our agencies in DHS.”
“Almost all the highways of Italy were erected on a foundation four feet deep; when a space of marshy ground or bog was on the track of the road, it was filled up; and when any part of it was mountainous, its precipitousness was reduced to a gentle and trifling inclination from the general line of the road.”
“I mention my precipitousness because one week ago, a mere two weeks into my adventure, I was ready to end it all.”
“Everything was off, outlandish, and unnatural, from the stream to the stars to the sun that had abandoned the alien sky with deviant precipitousness.”
“There is but the single carefully watched entrance, with a sheer drop on one side and, I venture to say, equal precipitousness on the other.”
“Their great anxiety to trade for powder indicated their lack of that article and partly explained the precipitousness of their retreat.”
“The knoll fell away in bushy precipitousness to the plain below.”
Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond
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