"care factor" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: care factors [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} care factor (plural care factors)
  1. (colloquial, humorous) The degree to which somebody cares about something. Tags: colloquial, humorous Derived forms: care factor zero
    Sense id: en-care_factor-en-noun-oVfm9xyo

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2012, Tamra Mercieca, Getting Naked: The Dating Game, page 44",
          "text": "My care factor, along with my libido, had disappeared right out my bedroom window.",
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          "ref": "2012, Jen Jones, Lissa on the Sidelines",
          "text": "I earned some strange looks walking through the halls with it, but my care factor about what others thought was pretty close to zero. I just wanted to get — and feel — better.",
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          "ref": "2013, Kylie Scott, Lick",
          "text": "Fortunately, my care factor was now dangerously close to fuck-it levels.",
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          "ref": "2015, Ryan Thomas Grice, Photosynthesis",
          "text": "Not my finest moment, but my care factor is subzero right now. My attention is elsewhere.",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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