Crossword clues for coolness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coolness \Cool"ness\, 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.
Calm impudence; self-possession. [Colloq.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English colnesse; see cool (adj.) + -ness. Figurative sense of "calmness" is from 1650s; that of "absence of warm affection" is from 1670s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state of being cool, as in chilly. 2 (context countable English) The result or product of being cool, as in chilly. 3 (context slang uncountable English) The state of being cool, as in good or pleasing. 4 (context slang countable English) The result or product of being cool, as in good or pleasing.
WordNet
n. the property of being moderately cold; "the chilliness of early morning" [syn: chilliness]
calm and unruffled self-assurance; "he performed with all the coolness of a veteran" [syn: imperturbability, imperturbableness]
fearless self-possession in the face of danger [syn: nervelessness]
a lack of affection or enthusiasm [syn: coldness, frigidity]
Usage examples of "coolness".
Then, for the first time, I felt acutely the coolness, motion, and dampness of the surrounding air.
Much of the coolness was imagined or brought on by her own aloofness, Lorielle surmised, but Mandra saw none of this.
We were all provided with very comfortable lodgings, but the intensity of the heat induced the baili to seek for a little coolness in a country mansion which had been hired by the Bailo Dona.
She came in and went up to my lord with the most perfect coolness, and began to chatter away to him without taking any notice of me.
I politely begged Santis to return me the ring, and he replied with the utmost coolness that he had done so already.
Annette came to undress her, and I was glad to see the goodness of my niece towards her, but the coolness with which the girl behaved to her mistress did not escape my notice.
But when Sir Orlando had joined the Coalition, and when the sterner spirit of Mr Boffin had preferred principles to place,--to use the language in which he was wont to speak to himself and to his wife and family of his own abnegation,--there had come a coolness between them.
Pondering over my plan with the utmost coolness, I went and bought some balls of lead as large as my pockets would hold, and as heavy as I could bear, to carry to the Tower, where I intended to go on foot.
In this case, he and Cyd seemed to be falling over themselves to impress each other with their coolness and professionalism.
She took off her clothes in a moment with the greatest coolness, and did not indulge my licentious gaze in the least.
Guiscard, doffing his helmet for the coolness and hanging it on his saddle bow.
All the coolness which had once made Curt useful to Butch Drongo was returned.
In the predawn coolness, it was rather charming to listen to the first, fresh voices caroling out their wares: a soprano from the plumbing dealer gateward, a warbling tenor from the pottery shop closer at hand.
The banker having reaped a good harvest put down the cards, and Tiretta told him in good Italian that he was a cheat, to which the Piedmontese replied with the greatest coolness that he lied.
There was one thing, however, which annoyed me intolerably, namely, that in spite of my coolness towards her, the little hussy pretended to think that I had forgotten and forgiven everything.