tempestivity
nounEtymology From tempestive + -ity, from Latin tempestīvitās, from tempestīvus (“timely”), from tempestās (“time, season”), from tempus (“time”).
1
timeliness
- This is called the season or tempestivity of time, when time, tide, and wind meet and clasp together.1714, John Fox, Time and the end of time:
2
A time period of a particular character.
- 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.1569, Thomas Newton, The Worthye Booke of Old Age, translated from Cicero:
- Synonyms
- opportuneness, seasonability
- Antonyms
- intempestivity
- Related terms
- tempestive, tempestively