lukewarmness

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /luːkˈwɔːmnəs/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness. countable,uncountable
    — 1665, Robert Boyle, New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, Discourse II, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, London: A. Millar, 1744, Volume II, p. 246, And indeed, there is scarce any quality, for whose differences we have fewer distinct names, having scarce any for the many degrees of coldness, that may be conceived to be intermediate, betwixt lukewarmness and the freezing degree of cold […]

词形变化

lukewarmnesses plural

词源

Etymology tree
Middle English leuk
Proto-Germanic *warmaz
Proto-West Germanic *warm
Old English wearm
Middle English warm
Middle English leukwarm
English lukewarm
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English lukewarmness
From lukewarm + -ness.
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