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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

The state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

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 Dell, Floyd