[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or state of being tumultuous or disturbed; † in quot. 1619, seditiousness (obs.).

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1619.  Hieron, Wks., II. 442. Swaggering, and tumultuousnesse, and carelesnesse.

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1647.  Trapp, Comm. Matt. iv. 19. The world is compared to the sea, for its … tumultuousness.

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1822.  De Quincey, Confess., 39. The tumultuousness of my dreams.

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1899.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VII. 159. The tumultuousness of the movements.

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