frigidity

[L. frigiditas: cf. F. frigidité.]

1. The condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth.

Ice is water congealed by the frigidity of the air.

2. Want of ardor, animation, vivacity, etc.; coldness of affection or of manner; dullness; stiffness and formality; as, frigidity of a reception, of a bow, etc.

3. Want of heat or vigor; as, the frigidity of old age.

noun

Extreme lack of warmth: frigidness, frostiness, gelidity, gelidness, iciness, wintriness. See hot/cold/lukewarm.

Quotes:

"Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones." - Phyllis Mcginley

"Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him." - Marguerite Duras

"Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man." - Julie Burchill

"Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show." - Fanny Brice