What is the opposite of heat?
Hot>Cold
Hotness>Coldness
But Heat>?
I think as Heat actually means heat energy, it should not or does not have an opposite. Is this right?
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Hot>Cold
Hotness>Coldness
But Heat>?
I think as Heat actually means heat energy, it should not or does not have an opposite. Is this right?
Hot (qua adjective) is the opposite of cold (qua adjective).
Heat (qua noun) is the opposite of cold (qua noun).
For the verb form of "heat", the opposite is "cool":
"My soup is cold, I need to heat it."
"My soup is actually gazpacho so don't heat it, cool it down!"
frigid adj. Lacking heat
frigidity noun Lack of heat
entropy noun Lack of available heat
(physics/thermodynamics)
We say of the weather, "This heat is unbearable" or "this cold is unbearable," so in at least some senses "cold" is the opposite of "heat."
As a noun used for the weather as stated in the above answers its "cold." If used to denote the energy of something there is no opposite. If you ask whats the heat of the universe its close to 0 Kelvin and that's considered cold to humans on Earth. We don't generally say "What's the cold of the universe?" for example.