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means The quality or state of being warm, whether in temperature, feeling, or affection.

from From Old English 'wearmth,' built from 'wearm' (warm) plus the noun-making suffix '-th' — the same '-th' that quietly turns 'long' into 'length' and 'deep' into 'depth.' 'Wearm' itself traces back to a Proto-Germanic root and is related to words across the Germanic family for being warm; the deeper Indo-European cousins possibly link to roots meaning 'to burn' or simply 'to heat.' So the word is, fittingly, an old one — heat given a name long before anyone could explain it.

infrared
Your body glows in heat-vision the eye can't see
shared heat
Penguins huddle and rotate so none freezes outside
newborn skin
Skin-to-skin contact regulates a baby's temperature better than incubators
brown fat
Babies burn special fat purely to make heat
word origin
Warmth and warm trace to ancient roots for burning
for instance

thermal springs of rotorua — geothermal area in new zealand with water temperatures exceeding 100°c

mamma mia abba concert — touring musical that creates emotional warmth through nostalgia, running since 1999 across 50+ countries

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