negotiosity

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English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin negōtiōsitās. By surface analysis, negotious +‎ -ity.

Noun

negotiosity (usually uncountable, plural negotiosities)

  1. (archaic) The ability to negotiate many things at once.
    • 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe , pages 883–84:
      But there is yet a Third Atheistick Objection against Providence behind; That is 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.
    • 1916 April 1, William Marion Reedy, “The "Drive" after Villa”, in Bruno's Weekly, volume 2, number 14, page 590:
      His “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.
    • 2001, Edda Weigand, Marcelo Dascal, Negotiation and Power in Dialogic Interaction, page 142:
      3. The ‘negotiosity’ of irony