Frigidity

Definition: Frigidity

Frigidity

Noun

1. Sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse.

2. A lack of affection or enthusiasm.

Date "frigidity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Domain	Definition
Health	Coldness; especially, lack of sexual response in the female. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Frigidity

Synonyms: coldness (n), coolness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Cold	Noun: cold, coldness. Adjective: frigidity, inclemency, fresco.
Insensibility	Cold fit, cold blood, cold heart; coldness, coolness; frigidity, sang froid; stoicism, imperturbation; (inexcitability); nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes; insouciance; (indifference); recklessness; callousness; heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Frigidity

English words defined with "frigidity": Prigidity. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Counterfeit Sex: Homosexuality Impotence Frigidity (reference) Frigidity : what you should know about its cure with hypnosis (reference) Frigidity in Woman in Relation to Her Love Life (reference) Impotence and Frigidity (reference) Sophie's Choice Chili or How to Cure Your Frigidity (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Ruthie and Winfield stood inside the circle, comporting themselves with proper frigidity and dignity.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Frigidity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Frigidity" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	14	93,893

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "frigidity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ftohtësi seksuale. (various references)

Arabic		‏فتور جنسي, ‏فتور (coldness, coolness, languishment, letdown, lethargy, sluggishness, tepidity, torpidity, torpor), ‏برودة (chilliness, coldness, coolness, phlegm, unfriendliness). (various references)

Bulgarian		фригидност, мразовитост (frostiness, iciness, wintriness), безразличие (disinterest, incuriosity, indifference, insensibility, languor, torpidity, unconcern). (various references)

Chinese		�'冷 (Coldness, frigid). (various references)

Czech		frigidita. (various references)

Danish		frigiditet (insensible impotence, sexual anesthesia). (various references)

Dutch		frigiditeit (insensible impotence, sexual anesthesia). (various references)

French		frigidité. (various references)

German		frigidität, Gefühlskälte. (various references)

Greek		ψύξη (coling, cooling, freezing, refrigeration), ψυχρώτησ, ψυχρώτητα, ψυχρότης. (various references)

Hebrew		יחס צו� ן, קור (chill, cold, coolness). (various references)

Hungarian		hidegség (chill, cold, coldness, stoniness), ridegség (brittleness, embrittlement, inclemency, rigidity, rigidness, severity, sternness), frigiditás. (various references)

Indonesian		frigiditas (sexual frigidity). (various references)

Italian		frigidit� (frigidness), frigidità. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		フリート街 (experimental unmanned spacecraft, flea market, Fleet Street, flicker, flicker test, flip flop, free batting, free lance, free market, free pass, free-hand, free-lancer, fricassee, friction, Friedman, frigate, Frisbee), 冷ややかさ (coldness, indifference). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		フリジディティー , ひややかさ (coldness, indifference). (various references)

Korean		불감증. (various references)

Manx		feayr-chooish (impassiveness, imperturbability, indifference, languidness, phlegm, self-possession). (various references)

Pig Latin		igidityfray

Portuguese		frigidez (coldness, iceness). (various references)

Romanian		frigiditate (frostiness), frig (bleak, chill, chilly, cold, coldness, cool, coolness, frost), rãcealã (ague, chill, chilliness, cold, coldness, cool, coolness, distance, freshness, frost, go by, reserve, rheum), indiferenţã (apathy, carelessness, coldness, coolness, detachment, disregard, equanimity, indifference, insensibility, listlessness, nonchalance, phlegm, recklessness, regardlessness, remissness, sloth, torpor, unconcern). (various references)

Russian		фригидность, безразличие (apathy, indifference, indolence, insouciance, torpor, unconcern). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		frigidnost. (various references)

Spanish		frigidez (insensible impotence). (various references)

Swedish		frigiditet, kyla (chill, cold, coldness, frost, nip, refrigerate), kallsinnighet, köld (chill, cold, coldness, frost), arktisk kyla. (various references)

Turkish		soğukluk (apathy, bleakness, chill, chilliness, cold, coldness, coolness, distance, frost, frostiness, ill blood, inclemency, inhospitality, phlegm, standoff, stolidity, wintriness), duygusuzluk (apathy, indifference, insensibility, insusceptibility, obtuseness, phlegm, stolidity), cinsel soğukluk. (various references)

Ukrainian		холодність (chill, coldness, cool, frost, offishness), фригідність, морозність. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự lạnh lẽo, sự lânh đạm nữ dục, sự giá lạnh (freeze, froze, frozen), sự băng giá sự lạnh nhạt. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Frigidity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fixidity. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-f-g-i-i-i-r-t-y"
	-1 letter: rigidify, rigidity.
	-3 letters: drifty, frigid, trifid.
	-4 letters: digit, dirty, drift, grift, ridgy, rigid.
	-5 letters: dirt, frig, frit, gift, gird, girt, grid, grit, gyri, irid, rift, tidy, trig, yird.
	Words containing the letters "d-f-g-i-i-i-r-t-y"
	+3 letters: denitrifying, devitrifying.
	+4 letters: reidentifying.
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