Luke"warmness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

lukewarmness
    n 1: a warmness resembling the temperature of the skin [syn:
         {lukewarmness}, {tepidity}, {tepidness}]
    2: lack of passion, force or animation [syn: {tepidness},
       {lukewarmness}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Lukewarm \Luke"warm`\ (l[=u]k"w[add]rm`), a. [See {Luke}.]
   1. Moderately warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid.
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   2. Not ardent; not zealous; cool; indifferent. " Lukewarm
      blood." --Spenser. " Lukewarm patriots." --Addison.
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            An obedience so lukewarm and languishing that it
            merits not the name of passion.       --Dryden.
      -- {Luke"warm`ly}, adv. -- {Luke"warm`ness}, n.
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