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Frigidity definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FRIGID'ITY, n.
1. Coldness; want of warmth. But not applied to the air or weather.
2. Want of natural heat, life and vigor of body; impotency; imbecility; as the frigidity of old age.
3. Coldness of affection.
4. Dullness; want of animation or intellectual fire; as the frigidity of sentiments or style.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse [syn: frigidity, frigidness]
2: the absence of heat; "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor" [syn: coldness, cold, low temperature, frigidity, frigidness] [ant: heat, high temperature, hotness]
3: a lack of affection or enthusiasm; "a distressing coldness of tone and manner" [syn: coldness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness, chilliness]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century the quality or state of being frigid; specifically marked or abnormal sexual indifference especially in a woman

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see frigid

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Coldness, coolness, chilliness, frigidness, gelidity, gelidness, low temperature. 2. Dulness, frigidness, lifelessness, want of animation. 3. Frigidness, formality, primness, stiffness, rigidity, repelling manner, forbidding manner, chilliness, chill.