inopportunenessn.
/ɪnˈɒpətjuːnnəs/, /ˌɪnɒpəˈtjuːnnəs/, /ɪnˈɒpətʃuːnnəs/, /ˌɪnɒpəˈtʃuːnnəs/, U.S. /ᵻnˌɑpərˈt(j)u(n)nəs/ The quality or condition of being inopportune; inconvenience or unsuitability of occasion; untimeliness, unseasonableness.
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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [noun]
importunityc1451
unripenessa1500
inopportunity?a1513
unseasonableness1548
immaturity?c1550
untimeliness1580
intempestivity1654
inopportuneness1831
inopportunism1886
1831 E. E. Crowe Hist. France III. x. 314 [Napoleon] saw the inopportuneness, as well as the necessity, of the Russian war.
1878 P. Bayne Chief Actors Puritan Revol. vii. 276 Rupert marked his sense of the inopportuneness of this request by calling to his own standard the men whom Montrose commanded.
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