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Precipitousness

noun
1.
The property possessed by a slope that is very steep.  Synonyms: abruptness, steepness.
2.
The quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning.  Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, suddenness.





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"Precipitousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mrs. Landry rose with precipitousness, and the beautiful lady, very red, followed. Antonio, unmistakably stung with the scorpions I had set upon him, sprang to the door, the palest yellow man I have ever beheld, and let the ladies ...
— The Beautiful Lady • Booth Tarkington


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