NOUN | feeling | warmness, affection, affectionateness, fondness, tenderness, heart, warmheartedness, philia | a positive feeling of liking |
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attribute | warmness, warmth | the quality of having a moderate degree of heat |
Meaning | A positive feeling of liking. | |
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Example | "the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home" | |
Synonyms | affection, affectionateness, fondness, tenderness, heart, warmheartedness, philia | |
Narrower | attachment, fond regard | A feeling of affection for a person or an institution |
protectiveness | A feeling of protective affection | |
regard, respect | A feeling of friendship and esteem | |
soft spot | A sentimental affection | |
Broader | feeling | The experiencing of affective and emotional states |
Spanish | afección, afectividad, afecto, afición, amor, apego, cariño, filia, simpatía, ternura | |
Catalan | afecció, afecte, simpatia, tendresa | |
Adjectives | warm | psychologically warm |
Meaning | The quality of having a moderate degree of heat. | |
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Synonym | warmth | |
Narrower | lukewarmness, tepidity, tepidness | A warmness resembling the temperature of the skin |
Broader | hotness, heat, high temperature | The presence of heat |
Spanish | calor | |
Catalan | calor | |
Adjectives | warm | having or producing a comfortable / comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat |
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