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Definition of Opportuneness
1. Noun. Timely convenience.
Generic synonyms: Convenience
Antonyms: Inopportuneness
Derivative terms: Opportune, Pat, Timely
Definition of Opportuneness
1. Noun. The state or condition of being opportune. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Opportuneness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Opportuneness
Literary usage of Opportuneness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste COMTE, Frederic Harrison (1896)
"CHAPTER I. NECESSITY AND opportuneness OF THIS NEW SCIENCE. IN the five foregoing
parts of tins work, our investigation proceeded, on an ascertained and ..."
2. Diderot and the Encyclopædists by John Morley (1897)
"As we have said before, the immediate force of speculative literature hangs on
practical opportuneness. It was not merely because Bacon and Hobbes and Locke ..."
3. The universal etymological English dictionaryby Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1731)
"... ought to lay hold of, and not let (lip opportunity when offered; but, as we
lay, take time by the forelock. opportuneness [of ..."
4. Diderot and the Encyclopædists by John Morley (1884)
"As we have said before, the immediate force of speculative literature hangs on
practical opportuneness. ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1877)
"Nevertheless, the synodal representation reported against the opportuneness of
immediate legislation on the subject, and the Synod concurred in this ..."
6. Diderot and the Encyclopœdists by John Morley (1878)
"As we have said before, the immediate force of speculative literature hangs on
practical opportuneness. It was not merely because Bacon and Hobbes and Locke ..."
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