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tempestuosity

noun

Etymology

From tempestu(ous) + -osity.

  1. derived from *temh₁-✻ — “to cut”
  2. derived from tempestuōsus — “stormy, turbulent, tempestuous; impetuous”
  3. derived from tempesteus
  4. derived from tempestous
  5. inherited from tempestious
  6. suffixed as tempestuosity — “tempestuous + osity”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being tempestuous.

    • TEMPESTUOSITY, [Tempeſtuoſitas, L.] Stormineſs.
    • One wise provision against this is the expansion and excitement caused by this very calorific action, which is certainly the cause of the ocean’s fluidity; but it is no cause of the billow’s tempestuosity or upheaving of that element.

  2. Someone or something that is tempestuous.

    • Mr. Theodore Tilton’s first novel, ‘Tempest Tossed,’ (Sheldon) promises to be a very powerful work, of the Hugo school; some think that this radical tempestuosity has found his forte in fiction.

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