turbulence
noun
the quality or state of being turbulent; violent disorder or commotion.
turbulency
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a variation of
turbulence.
Example Sentences
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About this time the country was in a state of great turbulency on account of the Plug Drawing and the Chartist Riots.
From Adventures and Recollections by Bill o'th' Hoylus End
The refugee seeking, Narcissus-like, to see himself in his adoptive country, credited England with his own characteristics, turbulency and the thirst for scientific information.
From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Charles Bastide
There were children rolling in the sun, in the stubble, giving utterance to shrill laughter and enlivening this open-air workshop with their turbulency.
From International Short Stories: French by A. Cheneviere
What a tale of terror, now their turbulency tells!
From Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier by Margaret Spraque Carhart
Here are several lines taken from Poe’s The Bells: What a world of merriment their melody foretells, What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide by Charles Herbert Sylvester
