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impetuosity

American  
[im-pech-oo-os-i-tee] / ɪmˌpɛtʃ uˈɒs ɪ ti /

noun

  • impetuosities
    plural
  1. the quality or condition of being impetuous.

  2. an impetuous action.


Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of impetuosity

1575–85; < Late Latin impetuōs ( us ) impetuous + -ity


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Bellingham, for all the impetuosity that could - and should - have seen him sent off on Monday, is a generational talent, while Arsenal's Myles Lewis-Skelly has demonstrated he is a natural at this level.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2025

These people having no towns, all their wars are carried on with eagerness and impetuosity.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

“Because Anderson has not proved that the 1994 murders reflected youthful immaturity, impetuosity, or failure to appreciate risks and consequences, Washington’s constitution does not forbid his standard-range 61-year sentence,” Stephens wrote in the majority opinion.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2022

He ascribed a 2006 college essay, and its anti-Semitic overtones, to the impetuosity of youth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2022

“That’s not the point, Scout. You simply can’t do it. I could explain—no I couldn’t, either,” said Henry, as the ramifications of his impetuosity sank in.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

John Richard Yoho, a young Annapolis-and-Pensacola-trained officer of the regular Navy, who understands the circuitous ways of bureaucracy, tempers these impetuosities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Aside from his own irritating impetuosities, Fiorello LaGuardia's worst handicap last week was the fact that for millions in the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

But for an elderly star left after supernova explosions and other impetuosities with more than several times the Sun’s mass, there are no forces known that can prevent collapse.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

A few million years ago, when human beings first evolved on Earth, it was already a middle-aged world, 4.6 billion years along from the catastrophes and impetuosities of its youth.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Wunsch is at Grossenhayn this evening; all in a fiery mood of swiftness, his people and he;—and indeed it is, by chance, one of Wolfersdorf's impetuosities that has sent the news so fast.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Thomas Carlyle

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