Definitions | incalescent |
| adjective
- Becoming warmer, heating up.
- 1973: From some undreamed-of reservoir my body summoned up a gravity tank of libido. " Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me (Penguin 2001, p. 106)
Etymology: From the present participle stem of Latin incalescere, from in- + calescere "grow warm".
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