tumultuous
adjective
full of tumult or riotousness; marked by disturbance and uproar.
tumultuousness
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a word derived from
tumultuous.
Example Sentences
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The tumultuousness of April 1975 also meant that many South Vietnamese evacuated by chance and did not have formal documents.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2021
I think the tumultuousness of any first-year show on a network is always the hardest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2016
If Elling's power to touch hearts is applied with an almost forensic precision, Morris's is delivered with an impetuous, Janis Joplin-like tumultuousness.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 7, 2012
There is a whole universe in "Love and Marriage"; and it resembles the universe in its wildness, its tumultuousness, its contradictory quality.
From Women as World Builders Studies in Modern Feminism by Floyd Dell
His imagination has all the vivacity and tumultuousness of Rubens's, but its images, if not better understood, which would perhaps be impossible, are more compact and their evolution more orderly.
From French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by W. C. (William Crary) Brownell
