coolness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

COOLNESS, noun 1. A moderate degree of cold; a temperature between cold and heat; as the coolness of the summers evening. 2. A moderate degree, or a want of passion; want of ardor, or zeal; indifference; want of affection; as, they parted with coolness
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