rambunctiousness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English rambunctious 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 rambunctiousness From rambunctious + -ness.
Meanings
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(US, uncountable) The characteristic or state of being rambunctious, boisterous and unruly.
I do not suffer any more from brain fag. If I feel symptoms of a return of mental vacuity, I take of the hypophosphites and the intellectual jejuneness is immediately suppressed. My only objection to it is, that it creates in me an inordinate, and unseemly rambunctiousness. For a three scorer, who is now little more than a parchmental reminiscence, this is unbefitting.
1896, C., “The Hypophosphites”, in The Medical Gleaner, volume VII, Cincinnati, Oh.: Sullivan Printing Works, pages 61–62:
Synonyms
rumbustiousness · rumbunctiousness · rambunction
Translations (4)
pl hałaśliwość (characteristics of being rambunctious) · pl niesforność (characteristics of being rambunctious) · pl żywiołowość (characteristics of being rambunctious) · pl wrzaskliwość (characteristics of being rambunctious)