Definition of Boisterousness

1. Noun. A turbulent and stormy state of the sea.

Generic synonyms: Storminess
Derivative terms: Boisterous

2. Noun. The property of being noisy and lively and unrestrained.
Generic synonyms: Noisiness, Racketiness
Derivative terms: Boisterous

Definition of Boisterousness

1. n. The state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness.

Definition of Boisterousness

1. Noun. The characteristic of being boisterous. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Boisterousness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Boisterousness

boinging
boings
boingy
boink
boinked
boinking
boinks
bois
bois d'arc
bois durci
boiserie
boiseries
boist
boisterous
boisterously
boisterousness (current term)
boistous
boists
boite
boites
bojanus organ
bok
bok-bok
bok choi
bok choy
bokadam
bokchoi
boke
boked
bokeh

Literary usage of Boisterousness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience by Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (1890)
"Mrs. Hoge and myself visit the Hospitals of St. Louis — Our first Experience — boisterousness of new Recruits — The grim Silence of Men who had ..."

2. The Joyful Heart by Robert Haven Schauffler (1914)
"It is not boisterousness. It is generous and infectious, while boisterousness is ... For boisterousness is only a degenerate exuberance, drunk and on the ..."

3. A pronouncing Gaelic dictionary: to which is prefixed a consise but most by Neil MacAlpine (1833)
"... nf degree of diffi. culty, boisterousness, storminess, hard- ship. ... difficulty, &c. grief, anguish, distress, boisterousness; ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"They may have sudden attacks of boisterousness. Ideas of beauty are lost. There is no technical ability, and the power to work suffers, the patient being ..."

5. Brook Farm: Its Members, Scholars, and Visitors by Lindsay Swift (1900)
"Much of the boisterousness of youth was ... because many of the usual artificial conditions against which boisterousness is a natural protest were absent, ..."

6. John Webster: The Periods of His Work As Determined by His Relations to the by Elmer Edgar Stoll (1905)
"He has not Marston's daring and energy, or his boisterousness and flippancy, ... Consequently he imitated him, not in his boisterousness and extravagance, ..."

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