Impetuosity definition

ĭm-pĕcho͝o-ŏsĭ-tē
impetuosities
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The quality of making rash or arbitrary decisions, especially in an impulsive or forceful manner.
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The quality or condition of being impetuous.
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An impetuous act.
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The quality of being impetuous.
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An impetuous action or feeling.
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The condition or quality of being impetuous; fury; violence.
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Noun

Singular:
impetuosity
Plural:
impetuosities

Origin of impetuosity

  • From Middle French impétuosité, from Old French

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Impetuosity Sentence Examples

  • Ramus outdid his predecessors in the impetuosity of his revolt.

  • The France that he plunged into with such impetuosity was upon the verge of anarchy.

  • With these qualities Fichte himself combined a certain impetuosity and impatience probably derived from his mother, a woman of a somewhat querulous and jealous disposition.

  • With characteristic zeal and impetuosity Schelling had no sooner grasped the leading ideas of Fichte's amended form of the critical philosophy than he put together his impressions of it in his Ãœber die Möglichkeit einer Form der Philosophie überhaupt (1794).

  • He had already contributed articles and reviews to the Journal of Fichte and Niethammer, and had thrown himself with all his native impetuosity into the study of physical and medical science.

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