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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Luke·warm a.
 1. Moderately warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid.
 2. Not ardent; not zealous; cool; indifferent. “ Lukewarm blood.” --Spenser. “ Lukewarm patriots.”
    An obedience so lukewarm and languishing that it merits not the name of passion.   --Dryden.
 -- Luke*warm*ly, adv. -- Luke*warm*ness, n.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 lukewarmness
      n 1: a warmness resembling the temperature of the skin [syn: tepidity,
            tepidness]
      2: lack of passion, force or animation [syn: tepidness]