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/fɹɪdʒˈɪdɪti/
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NOUN
- sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse
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a lack of affection or enthusiasm
a distressing coldness of tone and manner -
the absence of heat
come in out of the cold
cold is a vasoconstrictor
the coldness made our breath visible
How To Use frigidity In A Sentence
- Ancient sources alluded to this element of frigidity by categorising the sign as ‘slightly barren’ in matters of fertility, and drawing pre-pubescent youth or sexless beings into its symbolic expression.
- What was more, I was determined to defy the frigidity of my race, that ancient shameful legacy of inhibition.
- The mildness of the climate seemed to have a tendency to melt away that frigidity which is a characteristic of people of the north, and the residents of the island were as frank, free, and hospitable as if they had never been out of the tropics. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale
- Macon Leary is a reluctant travel writer, whose usual emotional frigidity degenerates to near-paralysis after his son is murdered and his wife leaves him.
- The repression can be total in adult women, hence their frigidity.
- His hotel room was on the 17th floor; in the painting he conveys the feeling of the high rises and the frigidity of the weather.
- With a patricianly beautiful wife whose scholarship matched his own and whose frigidity allowed him to indulge a perilous penchant for undergraduate girls, he couldn’t lose. TOO MANY MURDERS
- HYDRANGEA - Thank You For Understanding , Frigidity, Heartlessness.
- Of the hot weather that you mention, we have [not] had in Derbyshire very much, and for myself I seldom feel heat, and suppose that my frigidity is the effect of my distemper; a supposition which naturally leads me to hope that a hotter climate may be useful. Life Of Johnson
- A glacial frigidity has taken the place of the wild party.
