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Definition of Frigidness

1. Noun. Sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse.

2. Noun. The absence of heat. "Cold is a vasoconstrictor"

3. Noun. A lack of affection or enthusiasm. "A distressing coldness of tone and manner"

Definition of Frigidness

1. n. The state of being frigid; want of heat, vigor, or affection; coldness; dullness.

Definition of Frigidness

1. Noun. The state of being frigid; frigidity; coldness. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Frigidness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Frigidness

frightment frights frightsome frighty frigid zone frigidaire frigidaires frigidaria frigidarium frigider

frigidest frigidities frigidly frigidness (current term) frigidnesses frigorie frigorific frigorifick frigorism frigot

frigots frigs frijol frijole frijoles frijoles refritos frijolillo frijolito

Literary usage of Frigidness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept, Southern Pacific Company (1912)
"Their object was monosyllabic still, she was reserved to the point of frigidness, but her color fluttered, her eyes were shyly eager; there was no doubt ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1848)
"She was evidently fitter to be an abbess than a queen ; a character of frigidness and formality designated her for the cloister; and if the Hanoverian ..."

3. Selections from the Writings and Speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an by William Lloyd Garrison (1852)
"Then the cold blood philosophy, congealed by icy frigidness, was changed into the warm fluid of patriotic life; then the abstractions of metaphysics became ..."

4. In Ghostly Japan by Lafcadio Hearn (1899)
"About them now was frigidness of death, — and silence tremendous. ... A gold flame kindled in the east. Then first to the pilgrim's gaze the steeps revealed ..."

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