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frigidity

[ fri-jid-i-tee ]

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.


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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of frigidity1

1400–50; late Middle English frigidite coldness (< Middle French ´Ú°ù±ð²µ¾±»å¾±³Ùé ) < Late Latin ´Ú°ùÄ«²µ¾±»å¾±³ÙÄå²õ; frigid, -ity
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Her paternal grandfather, a sexologist, invented a device called “the frigidity machine,†designed to “unlock the primal libidinal energy†and cure the world’s ills.

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"The help of such specialists is necessary if a person wants to recover from frigidity, impotence, or such violations of sexual behaviour as fetishism, masochism and sadism," the official newspaper of Russia's parliament said.

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She set up a private practice and specialized in treating women afflicted with what she would call one of the “gravest problems of our timeâ€: sexual frigidity.

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But despite having arrived at the inner suburbs of the coming season, Friday offered few clues to the days of frost and frigidity that experience and meteorology have located in our not-far-off future.

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In front of these drawings at the Met, I fell in love with David again: with his intensity and his frigidity; with how, in his shadow, today’s “political†art looks as benign as patty-cake.

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