Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being gelid; extreme cold.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being gelid.
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- noun The state or quality of being
gelid .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun coldness due to a cold environment
Etymologies
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Examples
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The night air, fraught with chill and gelidity, rips past the sensuous curves of the luxury sports coupe at 40-plus miles per hour.
Getting Sideways On Douglas Joseph M. Owens 2011
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About 400 miles to the southeast lies the coldest inhabited place on the planet -- the former Stalinist gulag and mining settlement of Oymyakon, where - 95. 8° is the official record; under pressure steel shatters like fine French crystal in such gelidity.
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Whatever art is it is not our day's serious-novel, whose texture so closely resembles that gelidity in which great Satan is forever mired at the center of hell's inner ring.
Paradise Regained Vidal, Gore 1979
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The crone continued her orgies, one time blowing her fire, again stirring the liquid in the caldron, and then making it run from the end of a stick that she might note its gelidity.
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