tepidity
(tɪˈpɪdɪtɪ)
[ad. late or med.L. tepiditās (631 in Gallia Christiana II. 186), f. tepidus tepid. So F. tépidité (14th c. in Godef. Compl.).]
The quality or condition of being tepid; moderate or slight warmth; lukewarmness. a. lit.
| 1656 Blount Glossogr., Tepidity, lukewarmnesse. 1676 in Phil. Trans. XI. 601 Any perceptible degree of tepidity. 1750 Johnson Rambler No. 80 ¶3 The body, chilled with the weather, is gradually recovering its natural tepidity. |
b. fig.
| a 1631 Donne Select. (1840) 220 This heat may ouercome my former frigidity and coldness, and..my succeeding tepidity and lukewarmness. 1740 [see tepid b]. 1819 Metropolis I. 48 The mawkish tepidity of his manner. 1884 Fortn. Rev. Jan. 138 Tepidity of political belief. |