1. The property possessed by a slope that is very steep
   - abruptness, steepness 
2. The quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning
   - abruptness, precipitateness, precipitance, precipitancy, suddenness

Derived forms: precipitousnesses

See also: precipitous

Type of: gradient, haste, hastiness, hurriedness, hurry, precipitation, slope

• Hernan Cortes
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• Hernando Cortes
• Hernando Cortez
• Hernaria
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• hernia
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• herniated
• herniated disc
• herniation
• hero
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• Hero of Alexandria
• hero sandwich
• hero worshiper
• hero worshipper
• hero-worship
• Herod
• Herod the Great
• Herodotus
• heroic
• heroic couplet
• heroic meter
• heroic poem