"impetuosity" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: impetuosities [plural]
Etymology: From English impetuous + -ity, from Middle French impétuosité, from Old French. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|impetuous|ity}} impetuous + -ity, {{uder|en|frm|impétuosité}} Middle French impétuosité, {{uder|en|fro|-}} Old French Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} impetuosity (usually uncountable, plural impetuosities)
  1. The quality of making rash or arbitrary decisions, especially in an impulsive or forceful manner. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (The quality of making rash decisions): прибързаност (pribǎrzanost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), импулсивност (impulsivnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), impetuositat [feminine] (Catalan), onstuimigheid [feminine] (Dutch), kiihkeys (Finnish), kiivaus (Finnish), forrófejűség (Hungarian), impetuosità [feminine] (Italian), impetuosidad [feminine] (Spanish)
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  2. The condition or quality of being impetuous, impatient; fury; violence. Tags: uncountable, usually
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  3. Vehemence; furiousness of temper. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Anger
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: impetuousness Related terms: impetuous, impetuously, impetuousness

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.