Meanings
plural negotiosities
- archaicuncountableusuallyThe ability to negotiate many things at once.
3. The ‘negotiosity’ of irony
2001, Edda Weigand, Marcelo Dascal, Negotiation and Power in Dialogic Interaction, page 1422 more examples
But there is yet a Third Atheistick Objection against Providence behind; That is^([sic]) is impossible, any One Being should Animadvert and Order all things in the Distant places of the world at once; and were this possible, yet would such Infinite Negotiosity be very Vneasie and Distractious to it, and altogether Inconsistent with Happiness.
1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe […], pages 883–84His “negotiosity” may very well be an aid to Villa's escape from our punitive expedition and at any time the amour propre of his party may be offended to the point of making common cause with Villa against the foreign invaders.
1916 April 1, William Marion Reedy, “The "Drive" after Villa”, in Bruno's Weekly, volume 2, number 14, page 590
Origin
- Latinnegōtiōsitās
- Englishnegotiosity
Learned borrowing from Latin negōtiōsitās. By surface analysis, negotious + -ity.
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