as in popularity
the state of enjoying widespread approval
the phenomenal hotness of the movie's stars is the driving force behind all of the advance publicity
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Recent Examples of hotness
The result isn’t always an easier character for the actor to pull off, but removing the Hollywood hotness factor provides an opportunity for at-home audiences to fully immerse themselves in the story.
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2025
Everybody has their own certain kind of hotness, their own certain thing, and you’re supposed to go for that.
—Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 30 Oct. 2025
After all, her hotness ruined him for all other women.
—Esther Zuckerman, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
The spicy jerk chicken had a marinated sauce that gave it a pungent hotness.
—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2025
Everybody has their own certain kind of hotness, their own certain thing, and you’re supposed to go for that.
—Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 30 Oct. 2025
After all, her hotness ruined him for all other women.
—Esther Zuckerman, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
The spicy jerk chicken had a marinated sauce that gave it a pungent hotness.
—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hotness
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The secondaries market has exploded in popularity, with transaction volumes on track to top $200 billion this year, up from $160 billion last year, and could reach $381 billion in 2029, according to an industry report by iCapital.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
5 Nov. 2025
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Women’s sports like basketball and soccer are booming in popularity, and King continues to lead from the front.—
Don Riddell,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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Indie sleaze, the hallucination of a 2000s seedy-chic genre that never fully existed, is in vogue.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
6 Nov. 2025
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Keep on doing the things that are going to actually bring about equality rather than the idea that the murder of a man (George Floyd) makes equality in vogue.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
29 Oct. 2025
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Recognizing both the contribution of Jules Rimet to the World Cup and the fact that France was unlikely to exploit the tournament as Italy had in 1934, the congress voted 19–4 in France’s favor.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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But there are still other redistricting maps in the works in several other states that could tip the scales in Republicans' favor.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Hotness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hotness. Accessed 26 Nov. 2025.
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