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comfort zone

Part of speech: noun
How common: Rare
Letters: 11

comfort zone is a noun meaning "the temperature range (between 28 and 30 degrees Centigrade) at which the naked human body is able to maintain a heat balance without shivering or sweating". It carries one recorded sense.

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
the temperature range (between 28 and 30 degrees Centigrade) at which the naked human body is able to maintain a heat balance without shivering or sweating
Broadertemperature

Questions about comfort zone

What does comfort zone mean?: comfort zone means "the temperature range (between 28 and 30 degrees Centigrade) at which the naked human body is able to maintain a heat balance without shivering or sweating".
Is comfort zone a common word?: comfort zone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for comfort zone come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.

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Semantic field: noun.cognition

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