inopportunityn.
/ɪnɒpəˈtjuːnɪti/ The quality or fact of being inopportune; 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
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 143 He that dois all his best servyis May spill it all with crakkis and cryis, Be fowll inoportunitie [a1586 In fuliche oportunitie].
1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Q. Rev.).
1868 A. B. Alcott Tablets 146 The light..hidden under the bushel of misapprehension, or inopportunity, flames forth at fitting moment.
1894 Westm. Gaz. 20 June 1/2 Such inopportunity as there may be in the Conference is not the fault of its organisers.
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