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  • noun Plural form of coolness.

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Examples

  • I include parental early childhood moments when we are a most blank canvas to be painted upon by our male and female providers ofour world of warmths and/or coolnesses.

    Slimy Love Anytime. Dog Shit for W. 2008

  • Is modern technology, with all its coolnesses iPods, TV on the internet, etc., the thing that killed the sense of wonder?

    Archive 2007-05-01 Scott Parker 2007

  • Ah, the scentification, the delicious basement-and-dank coolnesses.

    GUARDIAN OF THE VEIL GREGORY SPENCER 2007

  • Is modern technology, with all its coolnesses iPods, TV on the internet, etc., the thing that killed the sense of wonder?

    SF, Fantasy, and the Sense of Wonder Scott Parker 2007

  • Their friendship was sincere and devoted; and yet there were coolnesses, caused largely by the influence of their mother, -- and of M. Surville, whose jealous and tyrannical disposition prevented their seeing each other as frequently as they would have liked.

    Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

  • How many coolnesses would be avoided could we learn to see that friendship, like all other relations of life, has more duties than rights.

    Stray Thoughts for Girls Lucy H. M. Soulsby

  • My own impulse to enter many of the Sussex churches has been principally antiquarian or æsthetic, but to rest amid their gray coolnesses is a legitimate desire which should be fostered rather than discouraged, particularly as it is under such conditions that the soul even of the stranger whose motive is curiosity is often comforted.

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

  • Goodwood and Petworth; but it has none of their spacious coolnesses.

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

  • The somberest shadows, the most neutral twilights, the most austere recesses are lighted by it as though so many freakish sunbeams had severed relations with the parent luminary to rest quietly in the coolnesses of the ancient forest.

    The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909

  • Their squabbles had caused frequent coolnesses, and each had been going her own way.

    A Patriotic Schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907

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