tempestuousness
n 1: a state of wild storminess
2: a state of agitation or turbulent change or development; "the
political ferment produced new leadership"; "social unrest"
[syn: {agitation}, {ferment}, {fermentation},
{tempestuousness}, {unrest}]
Tempestuous \Tem*pes"tu*ous\, a. [L. tempestuous: cf. OF.
tempestueux, F. temp[^e]tueux.]
Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a
tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather;
a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate. --
{Tem*pes"tu*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Tem*pes"tu*ous*ness}, n.
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They saw the Hebrew leader,
Waiting, and clutching his tempestuous beard.
--Longfellow.
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