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hotness

hotness

3 4.0
How popular or fashionable something is now
  • noun
  • /ˈhɑtnəs/
: sensación
  • So now I am running the new hotness Chrome OS 23.0.1271.84 beta instead of the old and busted Chrome OS 21.x.
  • the new hotness

And ladies and gentlemen, it's time for Summer of Hotness.

Examples

  • Perl was the new hotness.

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  • Ever since launching back at Gen Con, "X-Win" has been consistently at or near the top of BoardGameGeek.com's "The Hotness" rankings.

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  • Yeah, it's the new hotness, sort of.

  • So yeah, the beauty and hotness scale is something that's really interesting.

  • The old hotness: Donald Trump surges to the head of the pack of Republican candidates for president.

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  • The new hotness: The Atlas Shrugged movie is released.

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  • Two weeks, thousands of votes, and so much hotness later, we have LA's Hottest Broker: Courtney Poulos of ACME Real Estate.

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  • New hotness: That heartless, ber-rich juggernaut is, er, kind of wimpy.

    Blog text (5)

  • Sure, the new hotness is Heart of Fear and Terrace of Endless Spring (and I'll get to those!), but I expect that the vast majority of players are still actively working on clearing Mogu'shan Vaults or are slogging through it weekly in LFR for precious, precious VP.

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  • The latest smartphone is the current hotness among tech enthusiasts, selling out within hours.

Synonyms

fashion
vshotness
∞ 1.0

A popular style of clothes and how people look

measures how much something is popular or in demand, not the style itself
vogue
vshotness
23 5.3

A style or idea that is fashionable now

measures how popular or in demand something is at a given time
coolness
vshotness
  • Informal
12 3.7

An attractive, stylish quality that many people admire

indicates popularity or high demand rather than admired appearance
hipness
vshotness
  • Informal
2 7.2

Being fashionable and following the latest trends

measures how much something is popular or currently in demand
stylishness
vshotness
1 3.6

A quality of being fashionable and attractive

measures public popularity or demand rather than elegance or appearance
fashionableness
vshotness
1 6.3

The state of being in style and popular now

focuses on how much something is popular or in demand

Antonyms

obscurity
35 7.4

A time when a person or thing is unknown and not noticed

unpopularity
6 4.9

Not liked by many people

Compounds

new hotness
  • Slang
1 8.5

A thing that many people like and find exciting right now

How Trendy

craze
39 4.2
hotness
3 4.0
popularity
248 2.0
obscurity
35 7.4

Surface Forms

hotness singular
hotnesses plural

Morphology

hotness = hot (transparent) = hot + ness

The adjective 'hot' meaning popular or trendy is nominalized by '-ness' to indicate the quality of being 'in demand' or fashionable.

Etymology

The word hotness meaning popularity comes from the image of something being 'hot' like a hot item or hot news that everyone wants, using the root hot and heat to show strong interest. So hotness means 'popular or in demand' right now.