Eli5 is there no such thing as cold?

Question

My SO said the above statement and gave me an explanation “Cold is the absence of heat or energy”, it does make sense however in my head it is like saying (in very simplistic terms) “the countryside is the absence of a city” and that is just a ridiculous statement.

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Answer 1

Heat is the minute vibration of the atoms that make up something.

Cold is the absence of that vibration.

So, cold is the absence of heat

0 degrees kelvin – or absolute zero – is the point at which no atomic vibration occurs

0 degrees kelvin is -273 degree Celsius