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caloricities

caloricities is the plural of caloricity.

Meaning of caloricity

Noun

caloricity (countable and uncountable, plural caloricities)

  1. Ectothermy.
    • At first she "ran a temperature" in American parlance, and I could not resist the exquisite caloricity of unexpected delights—Venus febriculosa—though it was a very languid Lolita that moaned and coughed and shivered in my embrace.1955, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 12, in Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 2, page 200

Questions about caloricities

What is caloricities the plural of?
Caloricities is the plural of caloricity.

Words near caloricities in the dictionary

  1. caloric deficits
  2. caloric density
  3. calorically
  4. caloricist
  5. caloricists
  6. caloricities
  7. caloricity
  8. calorics
  9. caloriduct
  10. caloriducts
  11. calorie

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