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tempestivity en · NOUN

Etymology

From tempestive + -ity, from Latin tempestīvitās, from tempestīvus (“timely”), from tempestās (“time, season”), from tempus (“time”).

Meanings

1. (uncountable) timeliness
   • This is called the season or tempestivity of time, when time, tide, and wind meet and clasp together. 1714, John Fox, Time and the end of time:
2. (countable) A time period of a particular character.
   • The race and course of age is certain; and there is but one way of nature and the same simple; and to every part of a man's life and age are given his convenient times and proper tempestivities. 1569, Thomas Newton, The Worthye Booke of Old Age, translated from Cicero:

Forms

Antonyms

intempestivity

Relateds

tempestively · tempestive

Synonyms

seasonability · opportuneness (timeliness)