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fri⋅gid⋅i⋅ty

  [fri-jid-i-tee]
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–noun
1. the state or condition of being frigid.
2. (in women) inhibition, not caused by a physical disorder or medication, of sexual excitement during sexual activity.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME frigidite coldness (< MF fregidité) < LL frīgiditās; see frigid, -ity
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frig·id   (frĭj'ĭd)   
adj.  

  1. Extremely cold. See Synonyms at cold.

  2. Lacking warmth of feeling.

  3. Stiff and formal in manner: a frigid refusal to a request.

  4. Persistently averse to sexual intercourse.


[Latin frīgidus, cold, from frīgus, the cold.]
fri·gid'i·ty (frĭ-jĭd'ĭ-tē), frig'id·ness n., frig'id·ly adv.
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Main Entry: fri·gid·i·ty
Pronunciation: frij-'id-&t-E
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -ties
: marked orabnormal sexual indifference especially in a woman
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frigidity fri·gid·i·ty (frĭ-jĭd'ĭ-tē)
n.
The state of marked or abnormal sexual indifference.

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frigidity

in psychology, the inability of a woman to attain orgasm during sexual intercourse. In popular, nonmedical usage the word has been used traditionally to describe a variety of behaviours, ranging from general coldness of manner or lack of interest in physical affection to aversion to the act of sexual intercourse. Because of the derogatory connotations that have become associated with the term frigidity, it has been replaced in the vocabulary of sex therapists by the general term hypogyneismus, the inability of a woman to obtain sexual satisfaction under otherwise appropriate circumstances.

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