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WARMTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love
Synonyms:
affectionateness; fondness; lovingness; warmth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("warmth" is a kind of...):
emotionalism; emotionality (emotional nature or quality)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "warmth"):
tenderness (a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling)
uxoriousness (foolish fondness for or excessive submissiveness to one's wife)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The trait of being intensely emotional
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("warmth" is a kind of...):
emotionalism; emotionality (emotional nature or quality)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "warmth"):
fieriness (a passionate and quick-tempered nature)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The quality of having a moderate degree of heat
Example:
an agreeable warmth in the house
Synonyms:
warmness; warmth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("warmth" is a kind of...):
heat; high temperature; hotness (the presence of heat)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "warmth"):
lukewarmness; tepidity; tepidness (a warmness resembling the temperature of the skin)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The sensation caused by heat energy
Synonyms:
heat; warmth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("warmth" is a kind of...):
temperature (the somatic sensation of cold or heat)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A warmhearted feeling
Synonyms:
warmheartedness; warmth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("warmth" is a kind of...):
caring; lovingness (a loving feeling)
Context examples:
‘Do not trouble yourself, my kind host; I have food; it is warmth and rest only that I need.’
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He had run forward with much warmth, and was shaking the hand of a singular-looking person who had just entered the room.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Really, Mr. Collins, cried Elizabeth with some warmth, you puzzle me exceedingly.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It was full of the fragrance of new bread and the warmth of a generous fire.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"Miss Eliott is a very sweet girl, and seemed to enjoy herself, I thought," observed Beth, with unusual warmth.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
With a confused brain, but with a heart into which some warmth of hope was returning, I accompanied my friend in a walk round the garden.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My fear fell from me as if it had been a vaporous garment which dissolved in the warmth.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
And long before his eyes had opened he had learned by touch, taste, and smell to know his mother—a fount of warmth and liquid food and tenderness.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Abnormal cutaneous sensations of tingling, numbness, pressure, cold, and warmth that an individual experiences without the presence of a stimulus.
(Paresthesia, NCI Thesaurus)
Factors such as low parental warmth and low marital satisfaction, for example, can really affect women’s mental health.
(Depression - men far more at risk than women in deprived areas, University of Cambridge)
