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n. - Lack of passion, force or animation; A warmness resembling the temperature of the skin.

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Usage examples (24)
  • They're reaction to it was lukewarm, but they also noted it was the kind of tepidness that the Academy loves.
  • I took a final sip of my coffee, which had chilled to tepidness.
  • At the moment, the tepidness of the Western response has given them serious cause for doubt.
  • Such tepidness introduces the fourth factor, more prevalent among committed environmentalists.
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