tempestuosity

Noun

tempestuosity (countable and uncountable, plural tempestuosities)

1. (uncountable) The quality of being tempestuous.
   • TEMPESTUOSITY, [Tempeſtuoſitas, L.] Stormineſs.[1721, N[athan] Bailey, “TEMPESTUOSITY”, in An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Bell, J. Darby, […], →OCLC, column 2
   • 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.1854, Andrew Brown, “Geological Structure of the Earth—Its Shape—Consolidation—Uniformity of Surface—[…]”, in The Philosophy of Physics or, Process of Creative Development, […], New York, N.Y....

   Synonyms:

   tempestuousness

2. (countable, rare) 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.1874 April 1, R. R. B., “Correspondence”, in The Publishers’ Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature […], volume XXXVII, number 878, published 16 April 1874, page 242
   • It must be remembered that one reason for the Muskingum and Kanawha being made such general subjects of Federal anxiety is that its waters are here and there found to be saline. This gives added fury to their tempestuosities; and but for oil, and appropriations for slack-water and a coffer-dam or...1880 January 22, Congressional Record: Containing the Proceedings and Debates of the Forty-Sixth Congress, Second Session, volume X, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 490, column 2