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impulsiveness|ɪmˈpʌlsɪvnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being impulsive in feeling or action.
1659D. Pell Impr. Sea To Rdr., A strong, and an unwithstanding impulsiveness that lay..upon my heart and spirit, till I went about it. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola Proem, Crude passions acted out with childish impulsiveness. 1884W. J. Courthope Addison v. 97 That impulsiveness of feeling..made him [Steele] the most powerful and persuasive advocate of Virtue in fiction. |