coldness
Syllables: cold·nessUK/ˈkəʊldnəs//ˈkoʊldnəs/
coldness noun: the relative lack of heat.
Noun
coldness (countable and uncountable, plural coldnesses)
- The relative lack of heat.
- The sensation resulting from exposure to low temperatures.
- Limited enthusiasm or affection; coolness.
- Synonyms:
- frost
- The reciprocal of absolute temperature.
- The coldness is the reciprocal of absolute temperature.1969, W. A. Day, Morton E. Gurtin, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, volume 33, number 1, Springer, pages 26–32
- (article title) The coldness, a universal function in thermoelastic bodies.1971, Ingo Müller, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, volume 41, number 5, Springer, pages 319–332
coldness meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
coldness in Hindi
- coldness, cold
- जाड़ा jāṛā
coldness in Tamil
- coldness, chilliness
- குளிர் kuḷir
- coldness, frigidity; stiffness
- விறைப்பு viṟaippu
coldness in Urdu
- coldness, coolness, chillness
- برودت burūdat
coldness in Bengali
- coldness; winter
- জাড় jaṛ
- coldness, cold
- হিম him
More languagesFewer languages
- coldness in Telugu
- చల్లదనము calladanamu
- coldness in Malayalam
- ശീതളം śītaḷaṁ
- coldness in Kannada
- ತಣ್ಣಸ, ತಣ್ಣಸು, ಅಯ್ಕಿಲ್, ಅಯ್ಕಿಲು
- coldness in Sanskrit
- शीतल śītala, जाड्य jāḍya
- coldness in Tagalog
- lamig
- coldness in Arabic
- بُرُودَة burūda
- coldness in Persian
- سرما sarmâ, سردی sardi
- coldness in Thai
- ความเย็น kwaam-yen
Examples of coldness in a sentence
- This function will be called the coldness, its equilibrium value will be the reciprocal of absolute temperature.1972, Ingo Müller, Entropy, Absolute Temperature, and Coldness in Thermodynamics: Boundary Conditions in Porous Materials Archive for...
- (article title) Coldness and Temperature.1975, J. Meixner, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, volume 57, number 3, Springer, pages 281–290:
- α is called the affinity, β the inverse temperature or coldness, and γ the free expansion coefficient.1995, Claude Garrod, Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Oxford University Press, page 111:
Synonyms of coldness
Forms of coldness
| plural | coldnesses |
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Origin of coldness
From Middle English coldnesse, from Old English cealdness, cealdnys (“coldness”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaldanassī (“coldness”), equivalent to cold + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian kâldens (“coldness”), Middle Low German koldenisse, kōldenisse (“coldness”), Middle High German kaltnisse, keltnisse (“coldness”).
Questions about coldness
- What does coldness mean?
- Coldness means the relative lack of heat.
- What is coldness in Hindi?
- Coldness in Hindi is जाड़ा (jāṛā). See Coldness meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use coldness in a sentence?
- This function will be called the coldness, its equilibrium value will be the reciprocal of absolute temperature.
- What part of speech is coldness?
- Coldness is a noun.
- How do you pronounce coldness?
- Coldness is pronounced /ˈkoʊldnəs/ (US).
- What is the plural of coldness?
- The plural of coldness is coldnesses.
Words near coldness in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: coldness (page history and authors); जाड़ा (Hindi) (page history and authors); குளிர் (Tamil) (page history and authors); برودت (Urdu) (page history and authors); জাড় (Bengali) (page history and authors); ശീതളം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); coldness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); जाड्य (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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