Antonyms for coldnesscold·ness

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1. coldness

   Bashfulness is a shrinking from notice without assignable reason. Coyness is a half encouragement, half avoidance of offered attention, and may be real or affected. Diffidence is self-distrust; modesty, a humble estimate of oneself in comparison with others, or with the demands of some undertaking. Modesty has also the specific meaning of a sensitive shrinking from anything indelicate. Shyness is a tendency to shrink from observation; timidity, a distinct fear of criticism, error, or failure. Reserve is the holding oneself aloof from others, or holding back one's feelings from expression, or one's affairs from communication to others. Reserve may be the retreat of shyness, or, on the other hand, the contemptuous withdrawal of pride and haughtiness. Compare ABASH; PRIDE; TACITURN.

   Antonyms:
   abandon, arrogance, assumption, assurance, boldness, conceit, confidence, egotism, forwardness, frankness, freedom, haughtiness, impudence, indiscretion, loquaciousness, loquacity, pertness, sauciness, self-conceit, self-sufficiency, sociability

   Synonyms:
   backwardness, bashfulness, constraint, coyness, diffidence, modesty, reserve, shyness, timidity, unobtrusiveness

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1. • Temperature

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1. cold, coldnessnoun

   the sensation produced by low temperatures

   "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head"

   Antonyms:
   high temperature, heat, hotness

   Synonyms:
   chilliness, cold, iciness, common cold, coolness, low temperature, frigidness, frigidity

2. coldness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness, chillinessnoun

   a lack of affection or enthusiasm

   "a distressing coldness of tone and manner"

   Antonyms:
   hotness, high temperature, heat

   Synonyms:
   chilliness, imperturbability, imperturbableness, cold, iciness, coolness, nervelessness, low temperature, frigidness, chill, frigidity, gelidity

3. coldness, cold, low temperature, frigidity, frigidnessnoun

   the absence of heat

   "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor"

   Antonyms:
   high temperature, heat, hotness

   Synonyms:
   chilliness, cold, iciness, common cold, coolness, low temperature, frigidness, frigidity

How to use coldness in a sentence?

1. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu:

   Now that the coldness between Turkey and Iraq is over, we will accelerate our relations in every possible way.

2. Haruo Ozaki:

   Hokkaido is a place where due to the climate conditions people tend to have the heater on very high and in very closed spaces as well, in places such as Tokyo and Osaka, it will also be getting colder from now. When we add this coldness factor, it shows that we need to express a lot more caution or we could face a further spread of contagion.

3. R. Buckminster Fuller:

   Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.

4. Thomas Bach:

   When I afterwards saw how she was received by her closest entourage, with such, what appeared to be a tremendous coldness, it was chilling to see this, rather than giving her comfort, rather than to try to help her, you could feel this chilling atmosphere, this distance.

5. Jiang Hui:

   I can feel the coldness they are feeling now.

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