different between tempestive vs tempestivity

English

Etymology

From Latin tempestivus.

Adjective

tempestive (comparative more tempestive, superlative most tempestive)

1. (obsolete) seasonable; timely
   • 1635, Thomas Heywood, The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels

     Neither obscured from the comfortable beams of the sun, nor covered from the cheerful and tempestive showers of heaven.

Synonyms

• opportune, timesome; see also Thesaurus:timely

Derived terms

• tempestively

Italian

Adjective

tempestive

1. feminine plural of tempestivo

Latin

Adjective

tempest?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of tempest?vus

References

• tempestive in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tempestive in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tempestive in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tempestive in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

tempestive +? -ity, from Latin tempest?vit?s, from tempest?vus (“timely”), from tempest?s (“time, season”), from tempus (“time”).

Noun

tempestivity (countable and uncountable, plural tempestivities)

1. (uncountable) timeliness
2. (countable) A time period of a particular character.

Synonyms

• (timeliness): opportuneness, seasonability; see also Thesaurus:timeliness

Antonyms

• intempestivity

Related terms

• tempestive
• tempestively