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The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- 1665, Robert Boyle, New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, Discourse II, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, London: A. Millar, 1744, Volume II, p. 246, And indeed, there is scarce any quality, for whose differences we have fewer distinct names, having scarce any for the many degrees of coldness, that may be conceived to be intermediate, betwixt lukewarmness and the freezing degree of cold [...]
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
lack of passion, force or animation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: tepidness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: coldness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness, chilliness
a warmness resembling the temperature of the skin
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: tepidity, tepidness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: warmth, warmness
Etymology tree Middle English leuk Proto-Germanic *warmaz Proto-West Germanic *warm Old English wearm Middle English warm Middle English leukwarm English lukewarm Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English lukewarmness From lukewarm + -ness.
