caloricity

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noun

Ectothermy.

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Meanings

nouncaloricity (countable and uncountable, plural caloricities)

plural caloricities

  1. countableuncountableEctothermy.

    At first she "ran a temperature" in American parlance, and I could not resist the exquisite caloricity of unexpected delights—Venus febriculosa—though it was a very languid Lolita that moaned and coughed and shivered in my embrace.

    1955 September 15, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 12, in Lolita, Paris: The Olympia Press […], →OCLC, page 200

Origin

From caloric + -ity.

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