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tempestuousness

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tem·pes·tu·ous  (tm-psch-s)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or resembling a tempest: tempestuous gales.
2. Tumultuous; stormy: a tempestuous relationship.
[Middle English, from Late Latin tempestusus, from tempests, tempest, variant of tempests; see tempest.]
tem·pestu·ous·ly adv.
tem·pestu·ous·ness n.
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Noun1.tempestuousness - a state of wild storminess
storminess - the state of being stormy; "he dreaded the storminess of the North Atlantic in winter"
2.tempestuousness - a state of agitation or turbulent change or development; "the political ferment produced new leadership"; "social unrest"
ferment, fermentation, unrest, agitation
Sturm und Drang, upheaval, turbulence - a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally); "the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence"


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