tempestivity
English
Etymology
Latin tempestīvitās, from tempestīvus (“timely”), from tempestās (“time, season”), from tempus (“time”).
Noun
tempestivity (countable and uncountable, plural tempestivities)
- (uncountable) timeliness
- (countable) A time period of a particular character.
- 1569, Thomas Newton, The Worthye Booke of Old Age, translated from Cicero:
- The race and course of age is certain; and there is but one way of nature and the same simple; and to every part of a man's life and age are given his convenient times and proper tempestivities.
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