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tempestivity

tempestivity noun: timeliness.

Noun

tempestivity (countable and uncountable, plural tempestivities)

  1. (uncountable) timeliness
    • This is called the season or tempestivity of time, when time, tide, and wind meet and clasp together.1714, John Fox, Time and the end of time
    Synonyms:
    opportuneness
  2. (countable) A time period of a particular character.
    • The race and course of age is certain; and there is but one way of nature and the same simple; and to every part of a man's life and age are given his convenient times and proper tempestivities.1569, Thomas Newton, The Worthye Booke of Old Age, translated from Cicero

Synonyms of tempestivity

Antonyms

Forms of tempestivity

pluraltempestivities

Origin of tempestivity

From tempestive + -ity, from Latin tempestīvitās, from tempestīvus (“timely”), from tempestās (“time, season”), from tempus (“time”).

Questions about tempestivity

What does tempestivity mean?
Tempestivity means timeliness.
What part of speech is tempestivity?
Tempestivity is a noun.
What is the plural of tempestivity?
The plural of tempestivity is tempestivities.

Words near tempestivity in the dictionary

  1. tempestite
  2. tempestites
  3. tempestive
  4. tempestively
  5. tempestivities
  6. tempestivity
  7. tempestless
  8. tempestological
  9. tempestology
  10. tempestous
  11. tempests

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