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Lukewarmness

Lukewarm \Luke"warm`\ (l[=u]k"w[add]rm`), a. [See Luke.]

  1. Moderately warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid.

  2. Not ardent; not zealous; cool; indifferent. `` Lukewarm blood.''
    --Spenser. `` Lukewarm patriots.''
    --Addison.

    An obedience so lukewarm and languishing that it merits not the name of passion.
    --Dryden. -- Luke"warm`ly, adv. -- Luke"warm`ness, n.

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lukewarmness

n. The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.

WordNet
lukewarmness

  1. n. a warmness resembling the temperature of the skin [syn: tepidity, tepidness]

  2. lack of passion, force or animation [syn: tepidness]

Usage examples of "lukewarmness".

Consequently there is universal lukewarmness, "only forty persons being found to form a popular club, holding sessions as a favor every five days.

That reluctance, that lukewarmness, he had attributed to a natural habit of discouragement.

The sins of Lukewarmness, loss of our first love, unprofitableness under the Gospel, slumbering and sleeping in the wise, as well as foolish Virgins, worldliness, pride, carnal security, and many other sins.