frigidity
Noun
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Sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse (synset 105220961)
is a type of: deadness, unresponsiveness - the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or eventssame as: frigidness
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The absence of heat (synset 105022301)
"the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor"is a type of:
- pressor, vasoconstrictive, vasoconstrictor - any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure
- temperature - the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity)
subtypes:- chill, gelidity, iciness - coldness due to a cold environment
- chilliness, coolness, nip - the property of being moderately cold
- frostiness - coldness as evidenced by frost
- cool - the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature
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A lack of affection or enthusiasm (synset 104636961)
"a distressing coldness of tone and manner"is a type of: emotionlessness, unemotionality - absence of emotionsubtypes:
- stone - a lack of feeling or expression or movement
- lukewarmness, tepidness - lack of passion, force or animation
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