different between carelessness vs coldness

English

Etymology

From Middle English *carelesnes, *carlesnesse, from Old English carl?asnes (“freedom from care, security, carelessness”), equivalent to careless +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??l?sn?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??l?sn?s/
• Hyphenation: care?less?ness

Noun

carelessness (countable and uncountable, plural carelessnesses)

1. Lack of care.

   This accident was caused by carelessness.

Synonyms

• inattention
• negligence

Antonyms

• carefulness

Related terms

• careless

Translations

Anagrams

• racelessness

English

Etymology

From Middle English coldnesse, from Old English cealdness, cealdnys (“coldness”), equivalent to cold +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: k?ld?n?s, IPA^(key): /?ko?ldn?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??ldn?s/
• Hyphenation: cold?ness

Noun

coldness (countable and uncountable, plural coldnesses)

1. The relative lack of heat.
2. The sensation resulting from exposure to low temperatures.
3. Limited enthusiasm or affection; coolness.
4. (physics) The reciprocal of absolute temperature.
   • 1969, W. A. Day and Morton E. Gurtin, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Volume 33, Issue 1, Springer, pages 26–32:

     The coldness is the reciprocal of absolute temperature.

   • 1971, Ingo Müller, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Volume 41, Issue 5, Springer, pages 319-332:

     (article title) The coldness, a universal function in thermoelastic bodies.

   • 1972, Ingo Müller, Entropy, Absolute Temperature, and Coldness in Thermodynamics: Boundary Conditions in Porous Materials Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Springer-Verlag, Wein GMBH, page 3:

     This function will be called the coldness, its equilibrium value will be the reciprocal of absolute temperature.

   • 1975, J. Meixner, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Volume 57, Issue 3, Springer, pages 281-290:

     (article title) Coldness and Temperature.

   • 1995, Claude Garrod, Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Oxford University Press, page 111:

     ? is called the affinity, ? the inverse temperature or coldness, and ? the free expansion coefficient.

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See also

• coldness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia