warmth

Pronunciation: /wɔɹmθ/

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun the sensation caused by heat energy
  2. noun a warmhearted feeling
  3. noun the quality of having a moderate degree of heat

Etymology

From Middle English warmth, warmeth, wermþe, from Old English *wiermþu (“warmth”), from Proto-West Germanic *warmiþu (“warmness; warmth”), corresponding to warm + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Waarmte (“warmth”), West Frisian waarmte (“warmth”), Dutch warmte (“warmth”), German Low German Warmte, Warmt (“warmth”).

In classic literature

Synonyms

heat

Semantic network

Broader (hypernyms)
temperature

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