adventuresomeness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English adventuresome Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English adventuresomeness From adventuresome + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state or quality of being adventuresome.
But toughness was not their quality—adventuresomeness was—and a mean determination to explore everything that interested them.
1973, Toni Morrison, Sula, Chatto & Windus (1993), page 55: