Crossword-Solution: TEPIDITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tepidity | n. | The quality or state of being tepid; moderate warmth; lukewarmness; tepidness. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “TEPIDITY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Lukewarm state | 1 answer |
| Lukewarmness | 2 answers |
| Lack of enthusiasm | 5 answers |
| A LACK OF AFFECTION OR ENTHUSIASM | 10 answers |
| Indifference | 74 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TEPIDITY (5)
But what then? How was he going to explain the tepidity, the desertion, the long sin against love of ten years? In short, how was he going to explain the inexplicable? He could decidedly do nothing that evening except make a blundering ass of himself.
Also came the last camp and the last dinner, at which the writer distinguished himself, and the host-in-himself was at last allowed to manipulate (with accompanying lecture) a marvellous bivouac-tin containing a compound called beef a la mode, which came provided with its own spirits of wine and wick, both of which proved ineffectual to raise the temperature of the beef above a mediocre tepidity.
Contrast the depth of your affection for your household with the tepidity of your love for your Saviour.
But dozing must not be confounded with legitimate sleep, though frequently tending to the same purpose; it may be termed an embryo slumber, that entertaineth the body with the most quiescent gentleness, acting on our senses as a sort of mental warm bath; till, finally, the "material man" himself luxuriates in tepidity.
Dear brethren, draw for yourselves the contrast between the eagerness with which you pursue that, and the tepidity with which you pursue this.
Quotes with TEPIDITY (2)
We tend to be unaware that stars rise and set at all. This is not entirelydue to our living in cities ablaze with electric lights which reflect back at us from our fumes, smoke, and artificial haze. When I discussed the stars with a well-known naturalist, I was surprised to learn that even a man such as he, who has spent his entire lifetime observing wildlife and nature, was totally unaware of the movements of the stars. And he is no prisoner of smog-bound cities. He had no i…
Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1972–2013).