frigidity

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FRIGID'ITY, noun 1. Coldness; want of warmth. But not applied to the air or weather. 2. Want of natural heat, life and vigor of body; impotency; imbecility; as the frigidity of old age. 3. Coldness of affection. 4. Dullness; want of animation or intellectual fire; as the frigidity of sentiments or style.
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