iciness

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Recent Examples of iciness His smug iciness here would serve him well playing both Patrick Bateman and Bruce Wayne. Tim Grierson, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for iciness
Noun
  • Her fierce intelligence helps paper over some of the screenplay’s rougher transitions, and even lends a measure of legibility to Sylvia’s sudden coldness.
    Natalia Winkelman, Variety, 16 June 2026
  • The bureaucratic coldness of Bolshevik Communism and the violent regressions of Fascism were yet worse.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • Scientists speculated that a slow metabolism and the frigidity of the water may have combined to keep the octopus mother alive.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 May 2026
  • Rugged individualism, frigidity of rugged individual.
    ABC News, ABC News, 25 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • One of the points of the posturing — in aerial ballets that take place away from public gaze hundreds of times a year — is to try to ensure that the frostiness between NATO and the Kremlin over Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine doesn't tilt into open hostility.
    ABC News, ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026

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“Iciness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/iciness. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.

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