Synonyms of impulsiveness

impulsiveness

noun

as in capriciousness

an inclination to sudden illogical changes of mind, ideas, or actions

his irrepressible impulsiveness sometimes got him into trouble

Synonyms & Similar Words

• capriciousness
• whimsicality
• willfulness
• freakishness
• unpredictability
• eccentricity
• flexibility
• caprice
• variability
• variableness
• moodiness
• whimsicalness
• irregularity
• volatility
• fickleness
• flakiness
• arbitrariness
• changeability
• mutability
• mercurialness
• inconstancy
• volatileness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• practicality
• reasonableness
• reasonability
• inflexibility
• levelheadedness
• firmness
• fixedness
• immutability
• invariability
• stability
• steadiness
• fastness
• steadfastness
• constancy
• immovability
• changelessness
• immovableness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of impulsiveness

His earlier films offer the immediacy of real-time creation, of something not unfinished but unreworked, thrust onto the screen with an impulsiveness that’s balanced by the careful conception behind it. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2026

Yakkity’s impulsiveness and wisecracking jokes provide the laughs, while Keo’s rivalry with his father (and his crush on Lemony) ground the show with genuine emotional dynamics. — Skyler Trepel, Entertainment Weekly, 20 June 2026

That impulsiveness was on display last year when the president pushed the Texas state legislature to gerrymander its electoral maps before the midterms in the hope of maintaining Republican control of Congress. — Jason Willick, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2026

Malcolm's daughter is struggling in life and school, but her father's genetic toolkit only has belligerence, impulsiveness and thickheadedness, passed on by his on-screen parents. — ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026

Ortiz and Brown take on Bebo and Lola portraying the impulsiveness of youth, exacerbated, particularly in Bebo’s case, by poverty and limited options to make his way in the world. — Carlos Aguilar, IndieWire, 20 Mar. 2026

Montse is intuition, strength, impulsiveness and heart. — Callum McLennan, Variety, 10 Mar. 2026

Paranoia’s impulsiveness, fixation, and self consciousness are mirrored in romance as a desire to be perceived in a particular way by a specific audience, a curiosity to uncover something deeper and more vital, and the desire to disappear into a world safe from outside perceptions. — James Folta, Literary Hub, 5 Feb. 2026

The novel Elphie follows the witch from infancy, shaped by her mother Melena’s impulsiveness and her father Frex’s stern piety, and navigating the jealousies that arise with the arrivals of her siblings, Nessarose and Shell. — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2025