impetuosity - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English
Noun
impetuosity (usually uncountable, plural impetuosities)
- The quality of making rash or arbitrary decisions, especially in an impulsive or forceful manner.
- ✤ She had however another motive, beside her obedience, to accompany the old gentleman in the chase; for by her presence she hoped in some measure to restrain his impetuosity, and to prevent him from so frequently exposing his neck to the utmost hazard.1
- The condition or quality of being impetuous, impatient; fury; violence.
- ✤ Again his lordship began his long and deliberate perusal, while Henrietta watched the slow motion of his eyes with a degree of impetuosity she could scarcely repress.2
Etymology
From English impetuous + -ity, from Middle French impétuosité, from Old French.
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