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Frigidity

Frigidity \Fri*gid"i*ty\, n. [L. frigiditas: cf. F. frigidit['e].]

  1. The condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth.

    Ice is water congealed by the frigidity of the air.
    --Sir T. Browne.

  2. Want of ardor, animation, vivacity, etc.; coldness of affection or of manner; dullness; stiffness and formality; as, frigidity of a reception, of a bow, etc.

  3. Want of heat or vigor; as, the frigidity of old age.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
frigidity

early 15c., from Middle French frigidité (15c.), from Late Latin frigiditatem (nominative frigiditas) "the cold," from Latin frigidus "cold" (see frigid). In reference to sexual impotence, 1580s, originally of men; by 1903 of women.

Wiktionary
frigidity

n. 1 The state of being frigid; coldness; lack of heat. 2 Coldness of feeling, manner or quality; lack of ardor, animation or vivacity; chilliness; dullness. 3 Want of natural heat and vigor of body; impotency.

WordNet
frigidity
  1. n. sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse

  2. a lack of affection or enthusiasm [syn: coldness, coolness]

Usage examples of "frigidity".

One other actress, Samantha Eggar, was to provide him with a hotter piece of spice than he could swallow, while the renowned feminist Gloria Steinem would act as a one-person tribunal, judging, condemning, and sentencing Henry to not being able to make love to her because of his political skullduggery and ideological frigidity.

Blandly Lim closed the door, noticing the frigidity, and chortled inwardly.

The temperature rose by several fractions of a degree, breaking up the unique and fantastically delicate valency bonds between disparate atoms which free fall and frigidity had established.

Indeed, some women try to carry the frigidities of their freedom into their bondage, but these are soon whipped out of them.

Lanning drew in a sharp, cutting snort at the interruption, and paused ferociously before continuing with added frigidity, -by a man of certain standing, with whose identity I am not interested in playing guessing games, I am bound to ask your cooperation in disproving it.

Lanning drew in a sharp, cutting snort at the interruption, and paused ferociously before continuing with added frigidity, --by a man of certain standing, with whose identity I am not interested in playing guessing games, I am bound to ask your cooperation in disproving it.

Tallis had fallen in love, had married, had fathered a child in spite of his wife's frigidity, had been almost asphyxiated by the oppressive soulfulness of the domestic atmosphere.

It has long seemed to me that jealousy and frigidity or at least tepidness are in direct proportion to one another.