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Iciness

Iciness \I"ci*ness\, n. The state or quality of being icy or very cold; frigidity.

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iciness

n. The state or quality of being icy or very cold; frigidity.

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iciness

n. coldness due to a cold environment [syn: chill, gelidity]

Usage examples of "iciness".

She was tossed back into the tube, went sliding and bouncing and falling back into the water, its iciness biting at her in those few places where the ooglith cloaker was not properly shielding her.

He had long finished urinating, and he was freezing cold, the iciness spreading through his loins, his thighs.

At last, in the fearsome iciness of upper space, he came round fully to the hidden side of Ngranek and saw in infinite gulfs below him the lesser crags and sterile abysses of lava which marked olden wrath of the Great Ones.

She noticed for the first time that the iciness of his gaze was lessened somewhat by sweeping, inky black eyelashes that formed an impressive crescent when his eyes were shuddered as they were now while he studied her knees.

Later he remarked that at first he had felt Knecht's remarkable calm and iciness at this moment as if it were a blow and an insult, a slap in the face and a betrayal of their old friendship and intimacy, an almost incomprehensible overstressing and anticipation of his impending position as supreme head of the Glass Bead Game.