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cold-bloodedness

  • a word derived from cold-blooded.
    cold-blooded
    adjective
    designating or pertaining to animals, as fishes and reptiles, whose blood temperature ranges from the freezing point upward, in accordance with the temperature of the surrounding medium; poikilothermic.

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The soft tissues that would be the most informative about warm- or cold-bloodedness are rarely preserved in fossils, and paleontologists obviously cannot directly measure an extinct animal’s body temperature.

From Scientific American Jul. 20, 2022

The tenaciousness, the risk-taking, the cold-bloodedness and the towering self-confidence — the qualities that make a spymaster — eventually consume their carriers.

From Washington Post Nov. 5, 2015

She inherits his reptilian cold-bloodedness, his narcissistic tendencies and his trivia obsession.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 1, 2015

That level of cold-bloodedness was one of the few genuine surprises in “Grand Guignol.”

From New York Times Jun. 30, 2014

It is remarkable, too, for its cold-bloodedness and lack of passion.

From My Dark Companions And Their Strange Stories by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley