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actuosity

actuosity noun: abundant activity.

Noun

actuosity (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Abundant activity.
    • the time present being urgent and raging like a Lion through its instant actuosity1660, H[enry] More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC
    • As soon as the religious leaves the existential present, where it is sheer actuosity, it immediately becomes milder. The process of religion's becoming milder and thereby less true is directly recognizable by its becoming a doctrine. As soon as it becomes doctrine, the religious does not have...1975, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong (translators), Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers, volume 4, page 296

Questions about actuosity

What does actuosity mean?
Actuosity means abundant activity.
What part of speech is actuosity?
Actuosity is a noun.

Words near actuosity in the dictionary

  1. actuopalaeontology
  2. actuopaleontological
  3. actuopaleontology
  4. actuopalynology
  5. actuose
  6. actuosity
  7. actuous
  8. acture
  9. acturience
  10. actus
  11. actus rei

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