adventuresomeness

English

Etymology

adventuresome +‎ -ness

Noun

adventuresomeness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being adventuresome.
    • 1973, Toni Morrison, Sula, Chatto & Windus (1993), page 55:
      But toughness was not their quality—adventuresomeness was—and a mean determination to explore everything that interested them.
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