Tempestivity

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    timeliness uncountable

    "This is called the season or tempestivity of time, when time, tide, and wind meet and clasp together."

  2. 2
    A time period of a particular character. countable

    "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."

Etymology

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

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