单词 | coldness |
释义 | coldness (once / 1045 pages) n WORD FAMILY coldness: coldnesses+/cold: colder, coldest, coldly, coldness, colds USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s less a movie of aesthetics than of synesthesia, transmitting an unbearable burden of inner coldness and emptiness by means of warmhearted wonder. The New Yorker(Nov 23, 2016) Eastman captures at once society’s dehumanizing coldness and the possibility of sustained, agile resistance to its strictures. New York Times(Oct 28, 2016) Thus, Chiron bumbles back and forth between the nurturing hominess of basic strangers, the coldness of school and the ugliness of his mother’s place. Washington Times(Oct 18, 2016) 1n the absence of heat the coldness made our breath visible Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper cold, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature heat, high temperature, hotness the presence of heat chill, gelidity, iciness coldness due to a cold environment chilliness, coolness, nipthe property of being moderately cold frostinesscoldness as evidenced by frost coolthe quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature pressor, vasoconstrictive, vasoconstrictor any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure temperaturethe degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity) 2n the sensation produced by low temperatures Syn|Hyper cold temperature the somatic sensation of cold or heat 3n a lack of affection or enthusiasm a distressing coldness of tone and manner Syn|Hypo|Hyper chilliness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness stone a lack of feeling or expression or movement lukewarmness, tepidnesslack of passion, force or animation emotionlessness, unemotionality absence of emotion |
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