Associations to the word «Festination»

Wiktionary

FESTINATION, noun. The involuntary shortening of stride and quickening of gait that occurs in some diseases (e.g. Parkinson's disease).
FESTINATION, noun. An involuntary quickening of speech in some speech disorders.

Dictionary definition

FESTINATION, noun. Involuntary shortening of stride and quickening of gait that occurs in some diseases (e.g., Parkinson's disease).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope