Thesaurus:suddenness

Thesaurus

suddenness

English

Noun

Sense: the quality of happening quickly, with little or no warning

Synonyms

• abruptness
• precipitantness
• precipitousness
• spontaneity
• spontaneousness
• subitaneousness
• suddenness

Antonyms

• deliberation
• graduality
• slowness

Hypernyms

• instantaneity    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• haste
• urgency

Related terms

• Thesaurus:sudden

Further reading

• “113. instantaneity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “suddenness” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.