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Chilliness   Listen
noun
Chilliness  n.  
1.
A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness.
2.
A moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or rawness; as, the chilliness of the air.
3.
Formality; lack of warmth.





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"Chilliness" Quotes from Famous Books



... air he was conscious of a certain chilliness. Her level, indifferent tone seemed to him almost abnormally callous. A horrible realisation flashed for a moment in his brain. She was speaking of the ...
— The Evil Shepherd • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... very ardor of Dorothea's nature. The country gentry of old time lived in a rarefied social air: dotted apart on their stations up the mountain they looked down with imperfect discrimination on the belts of thicker life below. And Dorothea was not at ease in the perspective and chilliness of that height. ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot
... companion, being then not much taller myself, and I was soothed and gratified, in a childish way, by discovering that my friend, though many hours dead, had not yet acquired the usual revolting chilliness. ...
— The World of Waters - A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea • Mrs. David Osborne
... and put his hand on my shoulder. "Let us get out of here," he said, and began to move slowly toward where the surrounding trees and bushes seemed thinnest. As I followed him, it came to me suddenly that the sun was low, and that there was a raw sense of chilliness in the air. ...
— The House on the Borderland • William Hope Hodgson
... off in the early morning, she looked somewhat anxiously at the heavy mist which hung over the moor, and remarked to her neighbour that there was a chilliness about the air this morning which felt like the approach ...
— Little Folks - A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) • Various


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