n. The state or character of being precipitate; precipitation; hastiness.
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n. the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning
Word Usage
"In this sense, the first of Descartes's rules of method in the Discourse is an Academic principle, perhaps the only one: to avoid precipitateness and prejudice and to rely only on one's own ability to discern the truth."