impulsiveness
冲动性,冲动,冲动的人
Definitions
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- : the quality of being easily swayed by emotional or involuntary urges or by momentary desires, without weighing them rationally:Insufficient sleep may increase the potential for risk-taking by compromising decision-making and increasing impulsivity.
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Examples
Compared to kids who got the placebo, those who took omega-3 pills showed improved attention and ability to control their hyperactive, impulsive behavior.
Those two words from the movie Swingers have come to represent American impulsiveness in all its glory.
Besides the irritability, impulsiveness is an equally characteristic feature.
She gave it with a heartrending impulsiveness throwing back her head suddenly and leaning her bosom on mine.
Without impulsiveness, his warm and tender sympathies imparted to him an unusual power and influence over other men.
She drew back instantly, and I hastened to repair the blunder my impulsiveness had made.
His impulsiveness keeps him from elaborating his sketches into long novels, such as Spektor and Dienesohn have produced.