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English
Etymology
From caloric + -ity.
Noun
caloricity (countable and uncountable, plural caloricities)
- Ectothermy.
1955, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 12, in Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G P Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 2, page 200: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.