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English Dictionary: tempestuousness by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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"
    Synonym(s): agitation, ferment, fermentation, tempestuousness, unrest
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tempestuous \Tem*pes"tu*ous\, a. [L. tempestuous: cf. OF.
      tempestueux, F. temp[88]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.
  
               They saw the Hebrew leader, Waiting, and clutching his
               tempestuous beard.                                 --Longfellow.
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