tepidity

noun

tepidity

noun

UK /təˈpɪd.ɪ.ti/

Etymology From tepid + -ity.

1

Usually The property of being tepid.

Now that walking plants were established facts, the press lost its former tepidity and bathed them in publicity. So a name had to be found for them.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 41:

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