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caloricity

caloricity noun: ectothermy.

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

Forms of caloricity

pluralcaloricities

Origin of caloricity

From caloric + -ity.

Questions about caloricity

What does caloricity mean?
Caloricity means ectothermy.
What part of speech is caloricity?
Caloricity is a noun.
What is the plural of caloricity?
The plural of caloricity is caloricities.

Words near caloricity in the dictionary

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

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