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Definition: Coldness |
ColdnessNoun1. The sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head". 2. A lack of affection or enthusiasm. 3. The absence of heat; "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "coldness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: ColdnessSynonyms: cold (n), coolness (n), frigidity (n), low temperature (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: hotness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cold | Noun: cold, coldness. Adjective: frigidity, inclemency, fresco. |
Indifference | Noun: indifference, neutrality; coldness; Adjective: anaphrodisia; unconcern, insouciance, nonchalance; want of interest, want of earnestness; anorexy, anorexia, inappetency; apathy; (insensibility); supineness; (inactivity); disdain; recklessness; inattention. |
Insensibility | Cold fit, cold blood, cold heart; coldness, coolness; frigidity, sang froid; stoicism, imperturbation; (inexcitability); nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes; insouciance; (indifference); recklessness; callousness; heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Coldness |
| English words defined with "coldness": Algidity ♦ chill, Chillness, cold ♦ dead ♦ Frigidness, frostiness ♦ gelidity ♦ iciness ♦ low temperature ♦ Prigidity ♦ Reserve air ♦ temperature ♦ unfriendly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "coldness": Marriage ♦ Oilcloth ♦ Porcupine ♦ Shakers ♦ Usurer ♦ Walking. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He's going into freezing coldness to find the dog he doesn't like and bring medicine back to a town that doesn't like him. (Balto; writing credit: David Cohen; Elana Lesser) | |
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Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Having an immense residuum of fury to expend, and not knowing what to do with it, he spoke to his daughter with coldness for more than three months |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The Queen observed my coldness, and when the farmer was gone out of the apartment, asked me the reason |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Patients who experience sensory disturbances often use terms such as numbness, tingling, coldness, or burning to describe their symptoms. (references) | |
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| "Coldness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Coldness" is used about 234 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 234 | 19,621 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "coldness". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Cyrene | N/A | Biblical | Coldness |
| Ibzan | N/A | Biblical | Father of coldness |
| Karkaa | N/A | Biblical | Dissolving coldness |
| Zenan | N/A | Biblical | Coldness |
| Zin | N/A | Biblical | Coldness |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "coldness": coldness-yet. | |
Ending with "coldness": warmth-coldness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
coldness | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "coldness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | të ftohtë (cold), mospërfillje (carelessness, contempt, disinterest, disregard, indifference, insouciance, neglect, negligence, nonchalance, slight, slur, snub), indiferencë (disinterest, languor, listlessness), ftohtësi (aloofness, chill, coolness, distance, frost, insensitivity, offishness). (various references) | |
Arabic | فتور (coolness, frigidity, languishment, letdown, lethargy, sluggishness, tepidity, torpidity, torpor), زكام (cold, coryza, running cold), جفاف (aridity, aridness, dehydration, desiccation, drought, dry, drying up, dryness, exsiccation), برودة (chilliness, coolness, frigidity, phlegm, unfriendliness), برد (chill, cold, freshen, hail, quench, rasp, refrigerate). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | студенина (bleakness, chill, dryness, frost, ice, impassivity, wintriness), хладина (chill, cool, coolness, tepidity). (various references) | |
Chinese | '冷 (frigid, frigidity). (various references) | |
Czech | chlad (chill, cold, cool, coolness). (various references) | |
Finnish | kylmyys (cold). (various references) | |
French | rhume (cold), froideur. (various references) | |
German | kühle (chill, chilliness, cool, coolness), Kälte (bleakness, chill, chilliness, chillness, cold, cold spell, frigidity, frostiness, iciness). (various references) | |
Greek | ψύχρα (chill, coolness), ψυχρότησ (chillines, cold shoulder, coolness, gelidity, iciness), ψυχρότητα (bleakness, chillines, coolness, gelidity, iciness, stiffness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קרירות (coolness, indifference). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hidegség (chill, cold, frigidity, stoniness). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kedinginan (be very cold, dullness). (various references) | |
Italian | freddo (bleak, chill, chilliness, chilly, cold, cold-hearted, cool, nonchalant, raw, stiff, winterly, wintry), freddezza (cold shoulder, coolness, frigidness, gelidity, stiffness). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 冷ややかさ (frigidity, indifference), 'さ , '冷 (chilliness, cold). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひややかさ (frigidity, indifference), さむさ, か"れい (chilliness, cold, considering old precedents, custom, of convention, precedent, the Hakone Mountains, warship's age). (various references) | |
Manx | feayraght [f] (chill, cold), feayraght (chill, cold). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oldnesscay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | indiferença (aloofness, apathy, callousness, cold shoulder, coolness, detachment, disinterest, easiness, estrangement, frigidity, insensibility, insouciance, listlessness, lukewarmness, nonchalance, stand-off, unconcern), frio (bleak, chill, chilly, clammy, cold, cold-hearted, coldlivered, devil-may-care, dispassionate, edge, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frost, iceness, ilium, impassive, lifeless, nipping, nonchalant, parky, passionless, phlegmatic, plodder, repulsive, reserved, soulless, tepid, unresponsive, unsympathetic, winterly, wintry), frigidez (frigidity, iceness), frieza (bleakness, chill, coolness, frigidity, nonchalance, phlegm, stand-off). (various references) | |
Romanian | rãcealã (ague, chill, chilliness, cold, cool, coolness, distance, freshness, frigidity, frost, go by, reserve, rheum), indiferenţã (apathy, carelessness, coolness, detachment, disregard, equanimity, frigidity, indifference, insensibility, listlessness, nonchalance, phlegm, recklessness, regardlessness, remissness, sloth, torpor, unconcern), gheaţã (ice), frig (bleak, chill, chilly, cold, cool, coolness, frigidity, frost). (various references) | |
Russian | холодность (chill, cold, frigidity, stoniness). (various references) | |
Scottish | fuachd (cold). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | hladnoća (chilliness, cold, frostiness, iciness). (various references) | |
Spanish | indiferencia (apathy, coolness, disregard, indifference, nonchalance, perfunctoriness, unconcern), frialdad (bleakness, chilliness, chillness, cold, frigidity). (various references) | |
Swedish | kyla (chill, cold, frigidity, frost, nip, refrigerate), köld (chill, cold, frigidity, frost). (various references) | |
Thai | ความเย็นชา (frost), ความเย็น. (various references) | |
Turkish | soğukluk (apathy, bleakness, chill, chilliness, cold, coolness, distance, frigidity, frost, frostiness, ill blood, inclemency, inhospitality, phlegm, standoff, stolidity, wintriness). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | холодність (chill, cool, frigidity, frost, offishness), холод (algidity, bleakness, chill, cold, freeze, frost), непривітність (inclemency), байдужість (apathy, callousness, cold-bloodedness, indifference, insensibility, negligence, nonchalance, oscitation, unconcern). (various references) | |
Welsh | oerni (chillness, cold), oerfelgarwch (coolness), oerder. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | neglegentia, neglegentiam, neglegentias. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "coldness": coldnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Coldness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: closness, colneis, culdees. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "coldness" (pronounced kō"ldnus) |
| 6 | -ō" l d n u s | boldness. |
| 5 | -l d n u s | baldness, wildness. |
| 4 | -d n u s | awkwardness, backwardness, badness, blandness, blindness, crookedness, farsightedness, fondness, goodness, handedness, hardness, indebtedness, kindness, madness, mindedness, nearsightedness, preparedness, redness, rudeness, sacredness, sadness, shortsightedness, shrewdness, soundness, spiritedness, tiredness, vividness, weirdness, wickedness. |
| 3 | -n u s | abruptness, absoluteness, acuteness, aggressiveness, agribusiness, airworthiness, alertness, aloofness, alumnus, Anas, androgynous, anise, appropriateness, arbitrariness, assertiveness, astuteness, asynchronous, attentiveness, attractiveness, awareness, awfulness, bagginess, bearishness, bigness, bitterness, bituminous, blackness, bleakness, bluntness, bonus, boorishness, brashness, brightness, bullishness, business, callousness, calmness, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, cavernous, cheapness, chitinous, cleanliness, cleanness, cleverness, closeness, cloudiness, clumsiness, cockiness, cohesiveness, Colonus, combativeness, compactness, competitiveness, completeness, consciousness, contagiousness, contentiousness, contrariness, Conus, coolness, correctness, coziness, craziness, creativeness, creditworthiness, creepiness, crispness, cuteness, dampness, darkness, Deaconess, deadliness, deafness, decisiveness, defensiveness, destructiveness, directness, disingenuousness, distinctiveness, divisiveness, dizziness, dreariness, drowsiness, drunkenness, dryness, dullness, eagerness, earnestness, edginess, effectiveness, elusiveness, emptiness, evenness, exogenous, eyewitness, faintness, fairness, fastness, fickleness, firmness, fitness, flatness, foolishness, forcefulness, forgiveness, forthrightness, foulness, fractiousness, frankness, freshness, friendliness, frothiness, fullness, funniness, furnace, gauntness, gayness, gelatinous, gentleness, genuineness, genus, ghastliness, gluttonous, governess, graciousness, greatness, greenness, grimness, hairiness, happiness, harmfulness, harness, harshness, heinous, helplessness, highness, hoarseness, holiness, homelessness, homesickness, homogenous, hopefulness, hopelessness, humanness, idleness, illness, inclusiveness, indecisiveness, indigenous, ineffectiveness, ineptness, inertness, intravenous, intrusiveness, inventiveness, joblessness, Johannes, larcenous, largeness, lateness, lawlessness, laziness, lenis, lightfastness, lightness, likeness, liveliness, loneliness, lousiness, luminous, Manus, meanness, membranous, menace, Minas, minus, monotonous, mountainous, mutinous, narrowness, nastiness, neatness, nervousness, newness, niceness, nitrogenous, nonbusiness, nonpoisonous, nosiness, nothingness, numbness, ominous, oneness, onus, openness, orderliness, otherness, outrageousness, outspokenness, pandanus, peacefulness, penis, permissiveness, persuasiveness, pervasiveness, pettiness, playfulness, poisonous, politeness, polygynous, pompousness, possessiveness, powerlessness, queasiness, quickness, quietness, raciness, randomness, rareness, ravenous, rawness, readiness, reasonableness, rebelliousness, recklessness, remoteness, resistiveness, resourcefulness, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness, restrictiveness, richness, righteousness, rightness, riskiness, robustness, roominess, roughness, rowdiness, ruinous, ruthlessness, Salinas, sameness, scantiness, secretiveness, selfishness, selflessness, sensitiveness, separateness, seriousness, shakiness, shallowness, sharpness, shortness, shyness, sickness, silliness, sinus, skittishness, slackness, sleepiness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slowness, sluggishness, slyness, smallness, smoothness, smugness, softness, solitariness, squeamishness, starkness, steadfastness, steadiness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stinginess, stoutness, strangeness, stubbornness, sturdiness, suddenness, suggestiveness, sweetness, swiftness, tardiness, tartness, tastiness, tenderness, tetanus, thickness, thinness, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, tightness, timeliness, togetherness, toughness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, ugliness, unconsciousness, uneasiness, unfairness, unhappiness, uniqueness, unpleasantness, unwieldiness, unwillingness, usefulness, vagueness, vastness, venous, viciousness, villainous, vindictiveness, voluminous, wariness, wastefulness, waterishness, weakness, weariness, weightlessness, wellness, wetness, whiteness, wholeness, wholesomeness, wilderness, willingness, wimpiness, wistfulness, witness, wonderfulness, worldliness, worthiness, wryness. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-l-n-o-s-s" | |
-1 letter: oldness, seconds. | |
-2 letters: cloned, clones, closed, closes, codens, dossel, lesson, lodens, scends, scolds, scones, second, socles, sondes. | |
-3 letters: clods, clone, clons, close, coden, codes, coeds, colds, coled, coles, coned, cones, coses, decos, dolce, doles, doses, enols, lends, lenos, loden, lodes, loess, loses, nodes, noels, nosed, noses, olden, onces, scend, scold, scone, sends, sleds. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-l-n-o-s-s" | |
+2 letters: closedowns, cloudiness, coldnesses, downscales, scoundrels. | |
+3 letters: adolescents, confessedly, cordialness, cradlesongs, declensions, nucleosides, undisclosed. | |
+4 letters: adolescences, candyflosses, cladogeneses, cladogenesis, cloddishness, cloudinesses, consolidates, cowardliness, disconsolate, milliseconds, scolopendras. | |
+5 letters: anecdotalisms, anecdotalists, cloudlessness, collectedness, comradeliness, considerables, cordialnesses, credulousness, deescalations, deliciousness, directionless, disallowances, endonucleases, indissociable, ludicrousness, nonclassified, nondisclosure, nucleocapsids, nucleotidases, sexdecillions, subadolescent. | |
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