Coldness is low temperature, or a lack of warmth in manner. The coldness of the water, coldness towards him, a sudden coldness.
The human sense is the commoner and the sharper: coldness between people is worse than anger because there is nothing to answer. Physics is strict that there is no such thing as cold, only less heat, though nobody outside a laboratory talks that way.
1nouncoldnessLow temperature, or a lack of warmth in manner.
“She was hurt by the coldness in his voice when he answered the phone.”
coldness is a quality.
Old English cealdnes, from ceald, cold, from a Germanic root.
Proto-West Germanic
*kaldanassī — coldness
Old English
cealdness
Middle English
coldnesse
English, today
coldness
Built from
From Middle English coldnesse, from Old English cealdness, cealdnys (“coldness”), from Proto-West Germanic kaldanassī (“coldness”), equivalent to cold + ness. Cognate with West Frisian kâldens (“coldness”), Middle Low German koldenisse, kōldenisse (“coldness”), Middle High German kaltnisse, keltnisse (“coldness”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA