Impetuosity

Definition: Impetuosity

Impetuosity

Noun

1. Rash impulsiveness.

Date "impetuosity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonym: Impetuosity

Synonym: impetuousness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Desire	Longing, hankering, inkling; solicitude, anxiety; yearning, coveting; aspiration, ambition, vaulting ambition; eagerness, zeal, ardor, empressement, breathless impatience, overanxiety; impetuosity,.
Excitability	Noun: excitability, impetuosity, vehemence; boisterousness; Adjective: turbulence; impatience, intolerance, nonendurance; irritability; (irascibility); itching; (desire); wincing; disquiet, disquietude; restlessness; fidgets, fidgetiness; agitation; (irregular motion).
Haste	Noun: haste, urgency; despatch, dispatch; acceleration, spurt, spirt, forced march, rush, dash; speed, velocity; precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness; Adjective: impetuosity; brusquerie; hurry, drive, scramble, bustle, fuss, fidget, flurry, flutter, splutter.
Rashness	Precipitancy, precipitation; impetuosity; levity;
Violence	Noun: violence, inclemency, vehemence, might, impetuosity; boisterousness; Adjective: effervescence, ebullition; turbulence, bluster; uproar, callithump, riot, row, rumpus, le diable a quatre, devil to pay, all the fat in the fire.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Impetuosity

English words defined with "impetuosity": plunge. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	What had really assumed the direction of the emeute was a sort of unknown impetuosity which was in the atmosphere.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Impetuosity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Impetuosity" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	29	64,444

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Language		Translations for "impetuosity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zjarr (Ardor, ardour, bale-fire, blaze, fervency, fervor, fervour, fire, flame, glimmers, gunfire, gun-layer, heat, light), vrull (Ardor, ardour, burst, career, dash, drive, driving force, elan, flush, furor, fury, ginger, impetus, momentum, pelt, pep, pith, raciness, rage, reach, spasm, spurt, tear, tearing, thrust, vehemence, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, violence, zest, zip). (various references)

Arabic		‏تهور (extravagance, foolhardiness, haste, imprudence, impulsiveness, madness, precipitate, precipitation, rashness, recklessness, temerity, uncontrollability), ‏عنف (blow up, check, chide, convulse, expostulate, fierceness, force, heating, rant, rebuke, roughness, rowdyism, rudeness, scold, smarten, thuggery, vehemence, violence, whip off), ‏طيش (foolishness, frivolity, imprudence, indiscretion, inexpediency, levity, libertinism, light-heartedness, lightness, prank, puerility, rashness, recklessness, temerity, thoughtlessness, unwisdom), ‏إندفاع بغير تفكير. (various references)

Bulgarian		стремителност (impetus, violence), буйност (boisterousness, ebullience, ebulliency, violence), прибързаност (haste, hastiness, imprudence, precipitance, precipitation, prematurity, rashness), пламенност (ardour, eagerness, fire). (various references)

Czech		impulzivnost, vznìtlivost (impulsiveness, touchiness), prudkost (effervescence, effervescency, ferocity, fierceness, intensity, rapidity, vehemence, viciousness, vigor, vigour, violence, virulence). (various references)

Farsi		حرارت (Ardor, Fire, Ginger, Heat, Vehemence, Verve, Warmth, Zeal), تهور (Temerity), تندی (Acerbity, Acrimony, Discourtesy, Ginger, Heat, Kick, Pace, Pungency, Rapidity, Rigor, Speed, Vehemence, Velocity, Violence, Virulence), بی پرواءی (Audacity, Temerity). (various references)

Finnish		kiihko (fury, heat, mania). (various references)

French		impétuosité (impetuousness, impulsiveness), violence, fougue. (various references)

German		impulsivität (impetuousness, impulsiveness), ungestümes handel (impetuousness), ungestüm (boisterous, boisterously, boisterousness, impetuous, impetuousness, unruly, vehemence, vehement), stürmische (impetuousness, tempestuously, turbulently). (various references)

Greek		ορμή (appetite, brunt, conation, dash, elan, impact, impetus, impulse, impulsion, momentum, precipitance, pulse, rush, urge, vehemence, vehemency). (various references)

Hebrew		פזיזות (foolhardiness, haste, hastiness, impulsiveness, precipitancy, rashness, temerity, waywardness), � מ�"רות (hastiness, rashness, temerity). (various references)

Hungarian		féktelenség (bluster, boisterousness, dash, diablerie, licentiousness, rampageousness, rampancy, turbulence, unrestraint), zabolátlanság (intemperance, rampageousness, rampancy), tüzesség, szenvedélyesség (luridity), lobbanékonyság (impulsiveness), indulatosság, hirtelenkedés, hevesség (acuity, acuteness, Ardor, ardour, bluster, dash, fervency, fierceness, keenness, mettle, poignancy, rampageousness, rampancy, severity, vehemence, warmth), elhamarkodottság (rashness), dühöngés (bluster, frenzy, fury, rage, rampage, rampageousness). (various references)

Italian		irruenza (rampage, rush), impetuosit� (eclat, hastiness, vehemence), foga (Ardor, ardour, heat, impetus, mettle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		若気 (youthful impetuosity, youthful vitality). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		わか�' (youthful impetuosity, youthful vitality). (various references)

Manx		raghtalys (rashness), raghalid. (various references)

Pig Latin		impetuosityay.(various references)

Portuguese		impetuosidade (mettled, mew, random, vehemence, wildness), impetigo (impetigo, scrum), fogosidade, ímpeto (bang, dash, impetus, impulse, kick, momentum, punch, rush, snap, spirt, urge). (various references)

Romanian		impetuozitate (rampancy, rapture), caracter impetuos. (various references)

Russian		стремительность (bang, dash, elan, precipitance), порывистость. (various references)

Scottish		déineachd (eagerness). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		plahovitost, naglost (precipitance, rashness, suddenness, temerity). (various references)

Spanish		irreflexión (rashness, thoughtlessness), impetuosidad. (various references)

Swedish		häftighet (ferocity, intensity, vehemence, violence, virulence). (various references)

Turkish		tez canlılık (quickness, restlessness), şiddet (acuteness, edge, fierceness, force, forcefulness, harshness, heaviness, impetus, intenseness, intension, intensity, keenness, lustiness, rigor, rigour, rough stuff, severity, sharpness, smartness, sting, stringency, tempest, vehemence, violence, virulence), ataklık (dash, mettle, militancy, spunk), acelecilik (hastiness, headiness, hurrying, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, rashness, speediness). (various references)

Ukranian		стрімкість (abruptness, ascent, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitation), стрімка. (various references)

Vietnamese		tính mạnh mẽ (crispness, impetuousness, intenseness, manliness, spiritedness), tính mãnh liệt tính bốc (impetuousness), tính hăng (impetuousness), tính dữ dội (impetuousness, severity), h� nh động hăng (impetuousness), h� nh động bốc (impetuousness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	animositas, animositatem, animositates, animositatis, violentia. (various references)
Middle English	1100-1500	randon. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Impetuosity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: impetousity. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-i-m-o-p-s-t-t-u-y"
	-2 letters: outpities.
	-3 letters: optimise, optimist, poutiest, timeouts, titmouse.
	-4 letters: impetus, impiety, impious, imputes, isotype, mistype, mitiest, mopiest, myopies, optimes, outpity, pietism, pietist, piosity, piteous, potties, putties, timeous, timeout, tiptoes, typiest, uptimes, utopism, utopist.
	-5 letters: impose, impost, impute, moiety, motets, mottes, mousey, mutest, myopes, opiums, optime, ostium, otitis, outset, outsit, pities, potsie, septum, setout, smutty, somite, sopite, spotty, stumpy, stymie, tempos, tempts, tepoys, tiptoe, totems, typist, upmost, uptime, utmost.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-i-m-o-p-s-t-t-u-y"
	+5 letters: hyperstimulation.
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