precipitation vs precipitancy

precipitation and precipitancy both are nouns.

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

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

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

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

precipitation (noun)	precipitancy (noun)
an unexpected acceleration or hastening	the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning
overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height
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 precipitancy

precipitation and precipitancy both are nouns.

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