[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The state or quality of being tempestuous or stormy; storminess, turbulence.
1648. Hexham, Dutch Dict., II. de stuerigheyt der Zee, The tempestuousnesse, or the storminesse of the Sea.
a. 1652. J. Smith, Sel. Disc., X. iv. (1673), 461. That impetuous violence and tempestuousness with which men are acted in pretensions of Religion arises ordinarily, I doubt, from unquiet and disturbed Minds within.
1798. Hist., in Ann. Reg., 154/2. The tempestuousness of the times appeared favourable to such an attempt.
1877. Dowden, Shaks. Primer, vi. 117. There is no tempestuousness of passion, and no artistic mystery.
