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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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As Violetta’s lover, Alfredo, the agile tenor Dominick Chenes is suitably dashing and mercurial, well matched to Mpofu in strength and impetuosity.

From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2023

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

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Put it down, perhaps, to the impetuosity of inexperience, and also to unawareness of a significant back problem, which Federer later detailed.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2022

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2022

“It is for me,” I said with the impetuosity of youth.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

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

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

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

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

Since the first impetuosities of youth, he has rarely been refractory or disobliging.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor

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