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Tepidness

Tepid \Tep"id\, a. [L. tepidus, fr. tepere to be warm; akin to Skr. tap to be warm, tapas heat.] Moderately warm; lukewarm; as, a tepid bath; tepid rays; tepid vapors. -- Tep"id*ness, n.

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tepidness

n. The property of being tepid.

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

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

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It has long seemed to me that jealousy and frigidity or at least tepidness are in direct proportion to one another.