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Noun: frigidity  fri'ji-di-tee
  1. Sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse
    - frigidness
     
  2. The absence of heat
    - coldness, cold, low temperature, frigidness
     
  3. A lack of affection or enthusiasm
    - coldness, coolness, frigidness, iciness, chilliness

Derived forms: frigidities

Type of: deadness, emotionlessness, pressor, temperature, unemotionality, unresponsiveness, vasoconstrictive, vasoconstrictor

Antonym: heat

Encyclopedia: Frigidity