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Definition of Cosiness
1. Noun. A state of warm snug comfort.
Generic synonyms: Comfort, Comfortableness
Derivative terms: Cosy, Cozy, Cozy, Snug, Snug
Definition of Cosiness
1. Noun. (chiefly North America) The state or quality of being cosy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cosiness
1. coziness [n -ES] - See also: coziness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cosiness
Literary usage of Cosiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Every-day Art: Short Essays on the Arts Not Fine by Lewis Foreman Day (1882)
"If use, cosiness, and comfort cannot be reconciled with beauty, blame the artist
for his incompetence, but do not condemn art because he is unequal to the ..."
2. The Diversions of a Book-worm by John Rogers Rees (1887)
"Wrapped in the cosiness of our inner life, ... is enhanced by remembering what
similar cosiness has been enjoyed in the past, or is being enjoyed in the ..."
3. Around the world in eighty days, tr. by G.M. Towle by Jules Verne (1874)
"In short, the house in Saville Row, which must have been a very temple of disorder
and unrest under the illustrious but dissipated Sheridan, was cosiness, ..."
4. Sons and Lovers by David Herbert Lawrence (1922)
"He loved the gardens and the buildings that stood with their scarlet roofs on
the naked edges of the fields, crept towards the wood as if for cosiness, ..."
5. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"... and pictured to themselves the serenity and security and cosiness of such
refuges at such times, and so had by and by come to dream of that retired and ..."
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