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impetuosity

noun

Etymology

From English impetuous + -ity, from Middle French impétuosité, from Old French.

  1. derived from impetus
  2. derived from impetuōsus
  3. derived from impetueux
  4. inherited from impetuous
  5. suffixed as impetuosity — “impetuous + ity”

Definitions

  1. The quality of making rash or arbitrary decisions, especially in an impulsive or forceful…

    The quality of making rash or arbitrary decisions, especially in an impulsive or forceful manner.

  2. The condition or quality of being impetuous, impatient

    The condition or quality of being impetuous, impatient; fury; violence.

    • Again his lordship began his long and deliberate perusal, while Henrietta watched the slow motion of his eyes with a degree of impetuosity she could scarcely repress.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at impetuosity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at impetuosity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at impetuosity

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA