Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FRI-GID'I-TY
FRI-GID'I-TY, n.
- Coldness; want of warmth. But not applied to the air or weather.
- Want of natural heat, life and vigor of body; impotency: imbecility; as, the frigidity of old age.
- Coldness of affection.
- Dullness; want of animation or intellectual fire; as, the frigidity of sentiments or style.
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