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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
frigidness is a noun meaning "sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse". It carries 3 recorded senses.
sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse
the absence of heat
“the coldness made our breath visible”
“come in out of the cold”
“cold is a vasoconstrictor”
a lack of affection or enthusiasm
“a distressing coldness of tone and manner”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for frigidness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.