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hotness

hotness

2 4.0
How popular or fashionable something is now
  • noun
  • /ˈhɑtnəs/
translation icon : 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.

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  • 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
488 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
22 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
5 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
6.3

The state of being in style and popular now

focuses on how much something is popular or in demand

Antonyms

33 7.4

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

7 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
35 4.2
hotness
2 4.0
popularity
284 2.0
obscurity
33 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.