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Frigid

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frigĀ·id (frjd)
adj.
1. Extremely cold.
2. Persistently averse to sexual intercourse.

frigid
[frij′id]
Etymology: L, frigidus, cold
1 lacking warmth of feeling; unemotional; unimaginative; without passion or ardor and stiff or formal in manner.
2 (of a woman) unresponsive to sexual advances or stimuli, abnormally indifferent or averse to sexual intercourse, or unable to have an orgasm during sexual intercourse. Compare impotence. See also orgasm. frigidity, n.

Frigid
Referring to a woman with sexual arousal disorder


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