Definition of "adventurousness" []

• The quality of being adventurous. (noun)

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• "The achievement of greatness through daring and adventurousness is intolerable to the mediocrities who malign him, as it reminds them they are parasitic worms."
• "In the previous post I cited John Dewey's notion of "adventurousness" as the quality I most look for in new writers and new works of fiction."
• "I decided to see how this year's San Francisco Symphony season stacked up in "adventurousness" with a few other orchestras in the country, and looked at the nine-month seasons for Boston, Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia during the same period."