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Iciness

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ic·y  (s)
adj. ic·i·er, ic·i·est
1. Containing or covered with ice: an icy road.
2. Bitterly cold; freezing: an icy day. See Synonyms at cold.
3.
a. Resembling ice: icy fingers.
b. Chilling in manner: an icy stare; icy detachment.
ici·ly adv.
ici·ness n.
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Noun1.Icinessiciness - coldness due to a cold environment  
chill, gelidity
low temperature, cold, frigidity, frigidness, coldness - the absence of heat; "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor"
2.iciness - a lack of affection or enthusiasm; "a distressing coldness of tone and manner"
chilliness, coldness, frigidity, frigidness, coolness
emotionlessness, unemotionality - absence of emotion
stone - a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone"
lukewarmness, tepidness - lack of passion, force or animation


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But the captain, for some unknown constitutional reason, had refrained from mentioning all this, and not till forced to it by Ahab's iciness did he allude to his one yet missing boy; a little lad, but twelve years old, whose father with the earnest but unmisgiving hardihood of a Nantucketer's paternal love, had thus early sought to initiate him in the perils and wonders of a vocation almost immemorially the destiny of all his race.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Having withstood such strong attacks upon my fortitude, it is possible that I may be of a cold and insensible temperament, amounting to iciness, in such matters; and therefore my impressions of the live pillars of the Capitol at Washington must be received with such grains of allowance as this free confession may seem to demand.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart--an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime.
The Fall of the House of Usher by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
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