Definition of Tempestuousness

1. Noun. A state of wild storminess.

Generic synonyms: Storminess
Derivative terms: Tempestuous

2. Noun. A state of agitation or turbulent change or development. "Social unrest"
Exact synonyms: Agitation, Ferment, Fermentation, Unrest
Generic synonyms: Sturm Und Drang, Turbulence, Upheaval
Derivative terms: Ferment, Ferment, Tempestuous

Definition of Tempestuousness

1. Noun. The characteristic of being tempestuous. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tempestuousness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tempestuousness

tempest
tempest-swept
tempest-tossed
tempest-tost
tempest in a teapot
tempested
tempesting
tempestite
tempestites
tempestivities
tempestivity
tempests
tempests in teapots
tempestuous
tempestuously
tempestuousness (current term)
tempi
tempics
tempietto
tempiettos
temping
templars
template
template RNA
template method
template method pattern
template method patterns
template methods
template strand
templated

Literary usage of Tempestuousness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Scotland, from the Union to the Abolition of the Heritable by John Struthers (1828)
"... who, notwithstanding the tempestuousness of the night, found a most agreeable amusement in securing the great quantities of provisions, ammunition, ..."

2. Nether Lochaber: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West by Alexander Stewart (1883)
"A FINER winter [January 1871] never was known all over the West Highlands and Hebrides. Some tempestuousness is to be looked for at this season, ..."

3. A new pronouncing dictionary of the Spanish and English languages by Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena, Edward Gray, Juan L. Iribas (1902)
"tempestuousness [tem.pcs'-chu-ua nes], ». Tiempo proceloso, tempestad. Templar [tcm'-plar],«. 1. Templario, miembro de cierta orden de caballería, ..."

4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"SPEAKER, — Not long after my last to you from before Waterford, — by reason of the tempestuousness of the weather ..."

5. The History of Scotland, from the Union to the Abolition of the Heritable by John Struthers (1828)
"... who, notwithstanding the tempestuousness of the night, found a most agreeable amusement in securing the great quantities of provisions, ammunition, ..."

6. Nether Lochaber: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West by Alexander Stewart (1883)
"A FINER winter [January 1871] never was known all over the West Highlands and Hebrides. Some tempestuousness is to be looked for at this season, ..."

7. A new pronouncing dictionary of the Spanish and English languages by Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena, Edward Gray, Juan L. Iribas (1902)
"tempestuousness [tem.pcs'-chu-ua nes], ». Tiempo proceloso, tempestad. Templar [tcm'-plar],«. 1. Templario, miembro de cierta orden de caballería, ..."

8. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"SPEAKER, — Not long after my last to you from before Waterford, — by reason of the tempestuousness of the weather ..."

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