hastening

hastening

1. present participle and gerund of hasten

hastening (plural hastenings)

1. The act of speeding up; a growing faster.
   • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:

     Miss D. had found that regular blinking, or a loud-ticking watch, or horizontal lines or marks on the ground, etc., similarly served to pace her, and to prevent the incontinent hastenings and retardations which otherwise marred her ambulation.

   • 1991, Christopher Pollard, The Good CD guide, 1992:

     The secret seems to be a very precise control of the subtle slackenings and hastenings of tempo that are essential to Scriabin's idiom […]

• acceleration