Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A moderate degree of cold; a temperature between cold and heat: as, the coolness of the summer's evening.
- n. A moderate or refreshing sensation of cold.
- n. Absence of mental confusion or excitement; clearness of judgment and calmness of action, particularly in an emergency: as, the safety of the party depended on his coolness.
- n. Absence of ardor or intensity; want of passion, zeal, cordiality, or affection; indifference.
- n. Quiet and unabashed impudence; nonchalance; effrontery; presumption.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The state of being cool, as in chilly.
- n. countable The result or product of being cool, as in chilly.
- n. slang, uncountable The state of being cool, as in good or pleasing.
- n. slang, countable The result or product of being cool, as in good or pleasing.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being cool; a moderate degree of cold; a moderate degree, or a want, of passion; want of ardor, zeal, or affection; calmness.
- n. colloq. Calm impudence; self-possession.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a lack of affection or enthusiasm
- n. calm and unruffled self-assurance
- n. fearless self-possession in the face of danger
- n. the property of being moderately cold
Etymologies
- From cool + -ness. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The price you pay for the coolness is the stress of trying to fund it.”
“The story, as he told it, magnified what he called my coolness and common-sense to a ridiculous extent.”
“I remember an incident of his whist-life sufficiently amusing in its way, though, in relation, the reader loses what to myself is certainly the whole pungency of the story: I mean the character and nature of the person who imparted the anecdote to me, and who is about the most perfect specimen of that self-possession, which we call coolness, the age we live in can boast of.”
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“Grrr. But then the coolness is that different familiars get different spells they can teach.”
“Cool, because coolness is how viral marketing works.”
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“To this very day, coolness is one of the main appeals of the genre for me.”
“The apex of its coolness is that you (yes, you) can become a bush robot yourself.”
“That was the main coolness with that particular game.”
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“So much coolness is coming into my mailbox shortly.”
“But strangeness, or coolness, is all about context: there should be an eye there, not a laser! pupils are black! yours shouldn't be reflecting like a cat's! you're Asian-y, your eyes shouldn't be blue!”
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Sense and Sensibility
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