caloricity en · NOUN
Etymology
From caloric + -ity.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Ectothermy.
At first she "ran a temperature" in American parlance, and I could not resist the exquisite caloricity of unexpected delights—Venus febriculosa—though it was a very languid Lolita that moaned and coughed and shivered in my embrace.
1955, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 12, in Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 2, page 200:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| caloricities | Number=Plur | lexicographic |