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FRIGIDNESS

Definition: FRIGIDNESS

FRIGIDNESS

Noun

1. The state of being frigid; want of heat, vigor, or affection; coldness; dullness.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Translation: FRIGIDNESS

Language Translations for "FRIGIDNESS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Frostigkeit (chilliness, frigidity, frostiness). (various references)

   

Italian

  

frigidità (frigidity), freddezza (cold shoulder, coldness, coolness, gelidity, stiffness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

igidnessfray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: FRIGIDNESS

Derivations

Words beginning with "FRIGIDNESS": frigidnesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"FRIGIDNESS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rigidness. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "FRIGIDNESS"

Words rhyming with "FRIGIDNESS" (pronounced 'Frig"id*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references)

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Anagrams: FRIGIDNESS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-f-g-i-i-n-r-s-s"

-1 letter: rigidness, ringsides.

-2 letters: desiring, dressing, insiders, residing, ringside.

-3 letters: designs, digress, dingers, dingier, dingies, dissing, engirds, fessing, finders, fingers, finises, firings, fridges, friends, fringed, fringes, ingress, insider, insides, redfins, refinds, resigns, ridings, risings, seising, sidings, signers, singers.

-4 letters: deigns, design, dieing, diesis, diners, dinger, dinges, dirges, engird, feigns, fidges, fiends, finder, finger, firing, fridge.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-f-g-i-i-n-r-s-s"
 

+2 letters: frigidnesses.

 

+4 letters: disfigurements.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FRIGIDNESS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 52 49 47 49 44 4E 45 53 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    .-.    ..    --.    ..    -..    -.    .    ...    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01010010 01001001 01000111 01001001 01000100 01001110 01000101 01010011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#82 &#73 &#71 &#73 &#68 &#78 &#69 &#83 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0052 0049 0047 0049 0044 004E 0045 0053 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

40524341433848395353

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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