impulsiveness

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Impulsiveness, for instance, is common among people with A.D.H.D., while hopelessness is often a precursor to depression.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2016

Impulsiveness is often the cause of serious breaches of etiquette—breaches that are, socially speaking, the ruin of many a rising young man, of many an otherwise charming young woman.

From Book of Etiquette Volume I by Eichler, Lillian

Yet even this term expresses too much for its average daily action, and Violence, Impulsiveness, or Vehemence would come nearer to expressing its ordinary manifestation.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

Impulsiveness was a part of Teddy Maroon’s enthusiastic nature.

From The Story of the Rock by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Impulsiveness, shyness, nervousness, are more serious defects in kings and queens than in ordinary mortals.

From Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 by Tytler, Sarah