tempestivity

English

Etymology

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

Noun

tempestivity (countable and uncountable, plural tempestivities)

  1. (uncountable) timeliness
    • 1714, John Fox, Time and the end of time‎:
      This is called the season or tempestivity of time, when time, tide, and wind meet and clasp together.
  2. (countable) A time period of a particular character.
    • 1569, Thomas Newton, The Worthye Booke of Old Age, translated from Cicero‎:
      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.

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