tempestuosity
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "TEMPESTUOSITY, [Tempeſtuoſitas, L.] Stormineſs."
- "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."
- "Moreover he is entangled in the braid and gimp meshes of a fair and frail milliner, who loves him devotedly—is distracted by jealousy, and in the tenderness and tempestuosity of her aspirations and exasperations equally ignores the existence of the letter h."
- "The tempestuosity of the leader displayed itself in his conducting of this composition, for he brought out his brass in a manner to make the audience almost cry out for mercy."
- "The Leader is not a cockle-shell, and the deep in the last week has exhausted its tempestuosity."
- "The South Shetlands gave them a final taste of their tempestuosity, by keeping the ship a week in getting out of the little harbour; […]"
Etymology
From tempestu(ous) + -osity.