frigidity

Variant of frigid

frigid definition

frigid (frij′id)

adjective

  1. extremely cold; without heat or warmth
  2. without warmth of feeling or manner; stiff and formal
  3. habitually failing to become sexually aroused, or abnormally repelled by sexual activity: said of a woman

Etymology: ME < L frigidus < frigere, to be cold < frigus, coldness, frost < IE base *srīg-, coldness > Gr rhigos, frost

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