WARMNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does warmness mean? 

• WARMNESS (noun)
  The noun WARMNESS has 2 senses:

1. a positive feeling of liking

2. the quality of having a moderate degree of heat

  Familiarity information: WARMNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WARMNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A positive feeling of liking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

affection; affectionateness; fondness; heart; philia; tenderness; warmheartedness; warmness

Context example:

the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home

Hypernyms ("warmness" is a kind of...):

feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "warmness"):

attachment; fond regard (a feeling of affection for a person or an institution)

protectiveness (a feeling of protective affection)

regard; respect (a feeling of friendship and esteem)

soft spot (a sentimental affection)

Derivation:

warm (psychologically warm; friendly and responsive)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of having a moderate degree of heat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

warmness; warmth

Context example:

an agreeable warmth in the house

Hypernyms ("warmness" is a kind of...):

heat; high temperature; hotness (the presence of heat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "warmness"):

lukewarmness; tepidity; tepidness (a warmness resembling the temperature of the skin)

Derivation:

warm (having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat)