Impulsiveness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Impulsiveness \Im*pul"sive*ness\, n.
     The quality of being impulsive.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  impulsiveness
       n : the trait of acting suddenly on impulse without reflection

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "impulsiveness":
     abruptness, alacrity, capriciousness, desultoriness, deviability,
     eccentricity, erraticism, expeditiousness, feverishness,
     fickleness, flightiness, forwardness, freakishness, furiousness,
     haste, hastiness, hurriedness, impatience, impetuosity,
     impetuousness, impulse, inconsistency, inconstancy, instability,
     irregularity, mercuriality, moodiness, overhastiness, precipitance,
     precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, precipitousness,
     precociousness, precocity, prematureness, prematurity, promptness,
     quickness, rashness, recklessness, restlessness, rush, shiftiness,
     speed, suddenness, swiftness, uncertainty, undependability,
     unfixedness, uninhibitedness, unpredictability, unreliability,
     unrestraint, unsettledness, unstableness, unsteadfastness,
     unsteadiness, untimeliness, variability, variation, variety,
     wantonness, waywardness, whimsicality