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 how much the atoms and molecules in a thing are vibrating. Everything that exists in the universe has _some_ amount of heat energy. There is no such thing as cold energy. Something feels “hot” if it has _more_ heat energy, and transfers that heat into your skin. Things that feel “cold” have _less_ energy and sucks some of your heat energy out of your skin. Hot and cold are relative terms.

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