the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. Coolness; coldness; a chill.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The state or quality of being chill or chilled.
n. An unpleasant degree of coldness: as, the chillness of the air.
n. Also spelled chilness.
Word Usage
"Separated from the Lady Isabelle, whose looks had been for so many days his loadstar, Quentin felt a strange vacancy and chillness of the heart, which he had not yet experienced in any of the vicissitudes to which his life had subjected him."