Word Meanings - INDISCRETION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The quality or state of being indiscreet; want of discretion; imprudence. 2. An indiscreet act; indiscreet behavior. Past indiscretion is a venial crime. Cowper.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INDISCRETION)

• Rashness
• Hastiness
• precipitancy
• recklessness
• venturesomeness
• temerity
• precipitation
• indiscretion

Related words: (words related to INDISCRETION)

• TEMERITY
  Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war. Syn. -- Rashness; precipitancy; heedlessness; venturesomeness. -- Temerity, Rashness. These words are closely allied in sense, but have a
• RASHNESS
  The quality of state of being rash. We offend . . . by rashness, which is an affirming or denying, before we have sufficiently informed ourselves. South. Syn. -- Temerity; foolhardiness; precipitancy; precipitation; hastiness; indiscretion;
• HASTINESS
  The quality or state of being hasty; haste; precipitation; rashness; quickness of temper.
• PRECIPITATION
  The act or process from a solution. (more info) 1. The act of precipitating, or the state of being precipitated, or thrown headlong. In peril of precipitation From off rock Tarpeian. Shak. 2. A falling, flowing, or rushing downward with violence
• INDISCRETION
  1. The quality or state of being indiscreet; want of discretion; imprudence. 2. An indiscreet act; indiscreet behavior. Past indiscretion is a venial crime. Cowper.
• PRECIPITANCE; PRECIPITANCY
  The quality or state of being precipitant, or precipitate; headlong hurry; excessive or rash haste in resolving, forming an opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation; as, the precipitancy of youth. "Precipitance of judgment." I. Watts.