Eli5 is there no such thing as cold?

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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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Heat is a measurement of, basically, how much something’s molecules are moving around. The word “cold” is just a shorthand way to say “when the molecules are moving around less”, but “coldness” isn’t a value that you can measure.

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