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UK
/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
- People do not view some behaviors such as addiction, violence, depression, and sexual frigidity as psychological problems.
- Doctor Simpson believes that Suzie's frigidity is due to some hang - up about men.
- Blaming Genes: From the "Our Genes are Our Destiny" department comes a London survey that claims frigidity is genetic: Archive 2005-06-01
- In Couples, however, it is ultimately the community that rots under the weight of accumulated fornication: wives go to therapy to understand their unhappiness aka, "frigidity" and one ultimately work up the courage to leave her husband. Adultery Carnival: John Updike's Couples and the Sexual Revolution
- ‘They're guests,’ he answered calmly, though I could tell that he was trying desperately to keep the frigidity out of his voice.
- The row article professor of los angeles university investigates discovery through, in the husband and wife with disharmonious sexual life, the one party that produces frigidity often is the husband.
- The word frigidity means coldness, and when a woman has no desire for sexual relations or experiences no pleasure when she has sexual relations, she is said to be frigid. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
- A sloe-eyed seductress of uncertain age, flies in monthly to brave the sub-zero frigidity of Edmonton in the off-festival season.
- According to the 2008 book Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach, Marie first consulted Sigmund Freud for treatment of what she described as her frigidity, which was later described as a failure to have orgasms during missionary position intercourse. May « 2008 « Jahsonic
- But to the extent that virility equals violence it is not a vital force but only a cover for the real frigidity.