precipitation vs abruptness

precipitation and abruptness both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
precipitation	Yes	No	No	No
abruptness	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, abruptness is a hyponym of precipitation; that is, abruptness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than precipitation:

precipitation: overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
abruptness: the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning

Other hyponyms of precipitation include precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness, oversteer.

precipitation (noun)	abruptness (noun)
an unexpected acceleration or hastening	the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning
overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)	the property possessed by a slope that is very steep
the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height	an abrupt discourteous manner
the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
the process of forming a chemical precipitate
the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time

precipitation vs abruptness

precipitation and abruptness both are nouns.

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