frigidityn.

Brit.

/frᵻˈdʒɪdᵻti/, U.S.

/frəˈdʒɪdᵻdi/

Etymology: < French frigidité, < Latin frīgiditāt-em , < frīgidus : see frigid adj. and -ity suffix.

a. The state or condition of being frigid; intense coldness.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] > intense or extreme

frigidityc1420

frigor1599

key-coldness1614

gelidity1656

gelidness1727

ultracold1967

c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 124 And in frigiditie [L. locis frigidis] Of seed and bayes make the semynary.

1630 J. Taylor Fight at Sea in Wks. iii. 37 Neither the parching heat of Lybia..or the benumming frigiditie of Groenland.

1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 274 There is such an intolerable frigidity in some parts under the Poles, as that they cannot bee discovered.

1795 Gentleman's Mag. 65 539/2 It had seemed probable that the intense frigidity of the winter would have destroyed the animalculæ.

b. In old Physiology: The quality of being frigid or producing frigidness: = coldness n. 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] > in old physiology

coldness1398

frigidity1574

1574 T. Newton tr. G. Gratarolo Direct. Health Magistrates & Studentes 44 The great frigiditie and coldnesse of it [Purselayne]..maye be tempered and qualefied with Minte.

1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xi. xxxiv. 438 Our Astronomicall diuines, say that Saturnes frigidity proceedeth from those waters.

1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xxvi. vii. 1035 If to the same frigidity remaining in fruits, a certain subtle humidity accrew.

1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 100 As it is of an exceeding cold nature, it does, with its frigidity, convert the air..into water.

c. Lack of natural heat or warmth (of the body).

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] > low body temperature

frigidity1631

hypothermia1886

1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes ii. i. 131 Before David died, such frigidity fell upon him, as with cloathes they could not keepe him warme.

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xii. 112 The frigidity of decrepite age is as much its enemy.

2. transferred. Want of generative heat; impotence. Now usually lack of sexual response in a woman.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > lack of interest in sex

lustlessness1556

frigidity1586

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > reproductive organ disorders > [noun] > of male > impotence

frigidity1586

impotency1594

impotence1655

agennesia1823

1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie ii. 58 His 1. wife..was deuorced from him for cause of frigiditye.

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. i. 3 His articulate Lady, called so, for articling against the frigidity and impotence of her former Lord.

1645 J. Milton Colasterion 10 Why are wee suffer'd to divorce adulteries, desertions, or frigidities?

1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 992 Forasmuch as Eunuchs..make most noise and greater than young persons that are more hot, therefore frigidity cannot be the cause.

1897 H. Ellis & J. A. Symonds Sexual Inversion v. 113 The lad in this case..has recently consulted me for impotentia coeundi, manifesting a frigidity for women.

1903 H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex III. 162 In dealing with the characteristics of the sexual impulse in women..we have also to consider the prevalence of frigidity, or sexual anæsthesia.

1963 A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex 65 But ‘frigidity’..implies more than failure to have orgasm: it is the inability to enjoy love~making and penetration.

1970 Notes & Queries Dec. 450/2 This relation between sexual frigidity and wrath does not seem to occur in the standard popular treatments of the Sins.

3. figurative.

a. Want of warmth of feeling or enthusiasm; apathy, coldness, indifference.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > coldness or lack of warm feeling

coldOE

coldness1557

iciness1579

frost1600

frostiness1629

frigiditya1631

nun's flesh1637

chillness1639

froideur1645

chilliness1817

touch-me-not-ishness1836

chill1837

cold-heartedness1850

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1958) IX. 176 This heat may ouercome my former frigidity and coldness.

1771 S. Johnson Lett. to Mrs. Thrale 20 July I dare neither write with frigidity nor with fire.

1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. xlv. 173 There is need that the frigidity of the Scholar be exchanged for the genial nature of the dweller in the open sunshine of heaven.

1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career xvii. 318 ‘She is not, sir’, replied Fanny with excessive frigidity.

1870 R. W. Emerson Success in Wks. (1906) III. 128 I seek one who shall make me forget or overcome the frigidities..into which I fall.

b. Lack of imagination; deficiency in fire or spirit; flatness, insipidity; also quasi-concrete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious > blandness or insipidity

flashinessa1603

frigidity1642

insipidness1711

insipidity1715

vapidity1721

vapidness1727

corporateness1755

vapidism1831

milk-and-wateriness1834

saltlessness1867

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 33 Having begun loftily..he falls downe to that wretched poorenesse and frigidity as to talke of Bridge street in heav'n.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. ix. 37 Driving at these as at the highest elegancies, which are but the frigidities of wit.

1763 Fordyce in W. B. Scoones Four Cent. Eng. Lett. 286 The polite frigidity of the French drama.

1846 N. Hawthorne Mosses i. i. 17 The frigidity of modern productions was characteristic.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	frigidity
释义	frigidityn. Brit. /frᵻˈdʒɪdᵻti/, U.S. /frəˈdʒɪdᵻdi/ Etymology: < French frigidité, < Latin frīgiditāt-em , < frīgidus : see frigid adj. and -ity suffix. 1. a. The state or condition of being frigid; intense coldness. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] > intense or extreme frigidityc1420 frigor1599 key-coldness1614 gelidity1656 gelidness1727 ultracold1967 c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 124 And in frigiditie [L. locis frigidis] Of seed and bayes make the semynary. 1630 J. Taylor Fight at Sea in Wks. iii. 37 Neither the parching heat of Lybia..or the benumming frigiditie of Groenland. 1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 274 There is such an intolerable frigidity in some parts under the Poles, as that they cannot bee discovered. 1795 Gentleman's Mag. 65 539/2 It had seemed probable that the intense frigidity of the winter would have destroyed the animalculæ. b. In old Physiology: The quality of being frigid or producing frigidness: = coldness n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] > in old physiology coldness1398 frigidity1574 1574 T. Newton tr. G. Gratarolo Direct. Health Magistrates & Studentes 44 The great frigiditie and coldnesse of it [Purselayne]..maye be tempered and qualefied with Minte. 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xi. xxxiv. 438 Our Astronomicall diuines, say that Saturnes frigidity proceedeth from those waters. 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xxvi. vii. 1035 If to the same frigidity remaining in fruits, a certain subtle humidity accrew. 1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 100 As it is of an exceeding cold nature, it does, with its frigidity, convert the air..into water. c. Lack of natural heat or warmth (of the body). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] > low body temperature frigidity1631 hypothermia1886 1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes ii. i. 131 Before David died, such frigidity fell upon him, as with cloathes they could not keepe him warme. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xii. 112 The frigidity of decrepite age is as much its enemy. 2. transferred. Want of generative heat; impotence. Now usually lack of sexual response in a woman. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > lack of interest in sex lustlessness1556 frigidity1586 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > reproductive organ disorders > [noun] > of male > impotence frigidity1586 impotency1594 impotence1655 agennesia1823 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie ii. 58 His 1. wife..was deuorced from him for cause of frigiditye. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. i. 3 His articulate Lady, called so, for articling against the frigidity and impotence of her former Lord. 1645 J. Milton Colasterion 10 Why are wee suffer'd to divorce adulteries, desertions, or frigidities? 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 992 Forasmuch as Eunuchs..make most noise and greater than young persons that are more hot, therefore frigidity cannot be the cause. 1897 H. Ellis & J. A. Symonds Sexual Inversion v. 113 The lad in this case..has recently consulted me for impotentia coeundi, manifesting a frigidity for women. 1903 H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex III. 162 In dealing with the characteristics of the sexual impulse in women..we have also to consider the prevalence of frigidity, or sexual anæsthesia. 1963 A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex 65 But ‘frigidity’..implies more than failure to have orgasm: it is the inability to enjoy love~making and penetration. 1970 Notes & Queries Dec. 450/2 This relation between sexual frigidity and wrath does not seem to occur in the standard popular treatments of the Sins. 3. figurative. a. Want of warmth of feeling or enthusiasm; apathy, coldness, indifference. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > coldness or lack of warm feeling coldOE coldness1557 iciness1579 frost1600 frostiness1629 frigiditya1631 nun's flesh1637 chillness1639 froideur1645 chilliness1817 touch-me-not-ishness1836 chill1837 cold-heartedness1850 a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1958) IX. 176 This heat may ouercome my former frigidity and coldness. 1771 S. Johnson Lett. to Mrs. Thrale 20 July I dare neither write with frigidity nor with fire. 1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. xlv. 173 There is need that the frigidity of the Scholar be exchanged for the genial nature of the dweller in the open sunshine of heaven. 1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career xvii. 318 ‘She is not, sir’, replied Fanny with excessive frigidity. 1870 R. W. Emerson Success in Wks. (1906) III. 128 I seek one who shall make me forget or overcome the frigidities..into which I fall. b. Lack of imagination; deficiency in fire or spirit; flatness, insipidity; also quasi-concrete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious > blandness or insipidity flashinessa1603 frigidity1642 insipidness1711 insipidity1715 vapidity1721 vapidness1727 corporateness1755 vapidism1831 milk-and-wateriness1834 saltlessness1867 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 33 Having begun loftily..he falls downe to that wretched poorenesse and frigidity as to talke of Bridge street in heav'n. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. ix. 37 Driving at these as at the highest elegancies, which are but the frigidities of wit. View more context for this quotation 1763 Fordyce in W. B. Scoones Four Cent. Eng. Lett. 286 The polite frigidity of the French drama. 1846 N. Hawthorne Mosses i. i. 17 The frigidity of modern productions was characteristic. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1420
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