COOLNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coolness mean? 

• COOLNESS (noun)
  The noun COOLNESS has 4 senses:

1. calm and unruffled self-assurance

2. the property of being moderately cold

3. fearless self-possession in the face of danger

4. a lack of affection or enthusiasm

  Familiarity information: COOLNESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COOLNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Calm and unruffled self-assurance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

coolness; imperturbability; imperturbableness

Context example:

he performed with all the coolness of a veteran

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

calmness (a feeling of calm; an absence of agitation or excitement)

Derivation:

cool (fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The property of being moderately cold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

chilliness; coolness; nip

Context example:

the chilliness of early morning

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

cold; coldness; frigidity; frigidness; low temperature (the absence of heat)

Derivation:

cool (neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Fearless self-possession in the face of danger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

coolness; nervelessness

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

fearlessness (the trait of feeling no fear)

Derivation:

cool (marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A lack of affection or enthusiasm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

chilliness; coldness; coolness; frigidity; frigidness; iciness

Context example:

a distressing coldness of tone and manner

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

emotionlessness; unemotionality (absence of emotion)

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

stone (a lack of feeling or expression or movement)

lukewarmness; tepidness (lack of passion, force or animation)

Derivation:

cool (psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike)

 Context examples 

But her coolness was not his.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Hope was alive again in my breast, and I looked about me with greater coolness.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

My aunt was so exasperated by the coolness with which Miss Murdstone looked about her, that I really believe she was motionless, and unable for the moment to dart out according to custom.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“So I see,” the other answered with the utmost coolness.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My feelings are profound, but I possessed a coolness of judgment that fitted me for illustrious achievements.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

There was a pause of shuffling feet and hard breathing, broken by the thud of a tremendous body blow from Wilson, which the smith stopped with the utmost coolness.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sir, said I, affecting a coolness that I was far from truly possessing, you speak enigmas, and you will perhaps not wonder that I hear you with no very strong impression of belief.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"The coolness of you two rascals is amazing," began Mr. Pickwick, trying to get up an awful frown and only succeeding in producing an amiable smile.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There was marked coolness on her side.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A certain superciliousness of look, coolness of manner, nonchalance of tone, express fully their sentiments on the point, without committing them by any positive rudeness in word or deed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)