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say it: KOHLD-nuhs
coldness is a noun meaning "the sensation produced by low temperatures". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the sensation produced by low temperatures
“he shivered from the cold”
“the cold helped clear his head”
a lack of affection or enthusiasm
“a distressing coldness of tone and manner”
the absence of heat
“the coldness made our breath visible”
“come in out of the cold”
“cold is a vasoconstrictor”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for coldness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.