cosiness BrE
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I just love the cosiness of a family supper at Christmas.

A chill went over me despite the cosiness of the tent.

And the second feeling is one of extreme envy at their apparent cosiness.

She offers a sense of discovery as well as cosiness.

The sketches for it might even have conveyed an impression of cosiness.

As they ambled to the table Sam remarked on the cosiness of the place.

The cosiness of the hotel and its charming staff.

This place offers rustic cosiness in a 120-year-old slab hut.

The shawl collar gives a feeling of warmth and cosiness.

Even if there was little to be suspicious about, such cosiness made others suspicious.

My packing cases don't exactly add to the cosiness.

The place is familiar, becoming home, taking on a tinge of spurious cosiness.

"I often think of the cosiness of this little parlour behind the shop."

That didn't detract from our stay and added a certain cosiness, but I might hesitate to take a big family.

There was a certain warmth and cosiness in this great dilapidated old house that only a gentle soul could create.

It had also robbed the pub of its cosiness as modernisation invariably does.

This arrangement was to increase the cosiness of the area as well as improve traffic safety.

Without this convection the room climate is much better in the questions of temperature, cosiness and dust contamination.

We are not talking about a branch of journalism involving the public interest - such as politics, crime or health - where cosiness is unacceptable.

There must have been a cosiness to the street once, but now there was such a sense of decay that Jack could almost smell it.

It was a charming room with a pleasant air of cosiness which Hannah was quick to feel.

It was the kind of community every sane person would want to live in; small-town cosiness, big-city stability.

But they had electricity, and despite its bareness there was an intimacy, a cosiness about the room that made me feel instantly at home.

What is the logic behind this cross-industry cosiness?

Then we fetched our torches and, abandoning the cosiness of the kitchen, staggered out into the night.