tempestivity

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin tempestīvitās, from tempestīvus (“timely”), from tempestās (“time, season”), from tempus (“time”).

Noun

tempestivity (countable and uncountable, plural tempestivities)

1. (uncountable) timeliness
   • 1714, John Fox, Time and the end of time‎^[1]:

     This is called the season or tempestivity of time, when time, tide, and wind meet and clasp together.

2. (countable) A time period of a particular character.
   • 1569, Thomas Newton, The Worthye Booke of Old Age, translated from Cicero‎^[2]:

     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.

Synonyms

• (timeliness): promptness, punctuality; see also Thesaurus:punctuality

Antonyms

• intempestivity

Related terms

• tempestive
• tempestively