Lukewarmness

Definitions

The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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 […]”

“Mr. Hale was disappointed in his pupil’s lukewarmness about Greek literature, which had but a short time ago so great an interest⟳ for him.”

“Sazonov was furious at the lukewarmness of the British and French reactions to Russia's protests.”

CEFR level