tepidity
IPA: tɪpˈɪdʌti
noun
- The property of being tepid.
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Examples of "tepidity" in Sentences
- (And I say that as an atheist who tires of Dawkins tepidity towards the creative arts.)
- Which is technically correct, I guess, but the hedging tepidity really misrepresents the depth of scientific consensus on the issue.
- Even as the days grow short and cold, the water's tepidity can release excess heat, which tends to increase pressure in the air above.
- Between the Boston and San Diego press, where "Ruined" started its three-theatre tour, I have yet to see any tepidity or negativity in the reviews.
- "He decried, for example, the contradiction between the splendid outward aspect of the monasteries and the tepidity ( 'tepiditas') of the monks themselves".
- We can fail in the practice of these virtues either by commission, omission, or by tepidity, in not acting as generously as we might in responding to the grace we have received from God.
- According to the Pope, some of its benefits are these: Genuine self-knowledge is increased; Humility grows; Bad habits are corrected; Spiritual neglect and tepidity are resisted; The conscience is purified; The will strengthened; A helpful self-control is attained; and Grace is increased in virtue of the Sacrament itself.
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