"hotness" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is usually used to describe something as being attractive, intense, or passionate. For example: "She exuded an aura of hotness that was undeniable."
This gets them attention and probably feels good – it you think you are hot, seeing your hotness broadcast to your social network is a positive experience.
It let users send points to friends they considered "hot" and to compare "hotness" rankings.
Knowing now how hollow all that step-right-up must-see-TV bluster was, I shudder to remember the editorial hype that used to be devoted to hotness — the legitimate-seeming magazines that existed to bully readers with hot-not lists and all the movies, books, CDs and even political scoops that we were supposed to pony up for this minute, on pain of social extinction.
Not to say that Ms. Silverman's hotness is unrecognized; she was, after all, No. 29 on Maxim's Hot List in 2007.
("Birth control doesn't encourage sex. You know what encourages sex? Alcohol, hotness and black music," she tells Danny).
Close to the park, Himalayan restaurant Yeti offers good-value dinners: prayer flags, mandalas and waiters in Nepali topi hats transport diners to Kathmandu, as do the momos stuffed with buffalo, vegetables or mutton, with three dipping sauces of escalating hotness.
As with e-mail, but perhaps more so, "people blogging get taken in by the immediacy and the hotness of the medium and say things they later regret," he says.
The only downside to hotness is having to fend off ghastly male colleagues; or so many people think.
Conversation on a business trip included discussion of favourite porn stars and the relative "hotness" of Marissa Mayer, the head of Yahoo.
Temperature, measure of hotness or coldness expressed in terms of any of several arbitrary scales and indicating the direction in which heat energy will spontaneously flow i.e., from a hotter body (one at a higher temperature) to a colder body (one at a lower temperature).
One of the guilty pleasures of the referendum campaign was the Angry Salmond Twitter account, in which the "First Minister" held forth on his general greatness and utter hotness while making deliciously unPC pronouncements about how, come independence, everyone would have non-stop adventures and better sex.
