Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A moderate degree of cold; a temperature between cold and heat: as, the coolness of the summer's evening.
- noun A moderate or refreshing sensation of cold.
- noun Absence of mental confusion or excitement; clearness of judgment and calmness of action, particularly in an emergency: as, the safety of the party depended on his coolness.
- noun Absence of ardor or intensity; want of passion, zeal, cordiality, or affection; indifference.
- noun Quiet and unabashed impudence; nonchalance; effrontery; presumption.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being cool; a moderate degree of cold; a moderate degree, or a want, of passion; want of ardor, zeal, or affection; calmness.
- noun colloq. Calm impudence; self-possession.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The state of being
cool , as in chilly. - noun countable The result or product of being cool, as in chilly.
- noun slang, uncountable The state of being
cool , as in good or pleasing. - noun slang, countable The result or product of being cool, as in good or pleasing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a lack of affection or enthusiasm
- noun calm and unruffled self-assurance
- noun fearless self-possession in the face of danger
- noun the property of being moderately cold
Etymologies
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Examples
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The price you pay for the coolness is the stress of trying to fund it.
Money Doesn't Grow on Blueberry Bushes Candid Engineer 2008
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The story, as he told it, magnified what he called my coolness and common-sense to a ridiculous extent.
The Rise of Roscoe Paine Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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I remember an incident of his whist-life sufficiently amusing in its way, though, in relation, the reader loses what to myself is certainly the whole pungency of the story: I mean the character and nature of the person who imparted the anecdote to me, and who is about the most perfect specimen of that self-possession, which we call coolness, the age we live in can boast of.
Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General Charles James Lever 1839
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The apex of its coolness is that you (yes, you) can become a bush robot yourself.
MIND MELD: What Are The Coolest Robots in Science Fiction? 2010
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Cool, because coolness is how viral marketing works.
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To this very day, coolness is one of the main appeals of the genre for me.
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Grrr. But then the coolness is that different familiars get different spells they can teach.
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Cool, because coolness is how viral marketing works.
What do we want from climate informatics tools? | Serendipity 2009
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Cool, because coolness is how viral marketing works.
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That was the main coolness with that particular game.
Must Watch: First International Trailer for Max Payne « FirstShowing.net 2008
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