as in coldness
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Recent Examples of frigidity
However, something is belying Ciara’s frigidity during this conversation.
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Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2025
However, something is belying Ciara’s frigidity during this conversation.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2025
Anticipating frigidity, the organizers of the 2025 iteration (Donald Trump’s, reprise) moved the event indoors, to the Capitol Rotunda, whose limited capacity of six hundred people helpfully delineated who was in and who was on the outs.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2025
Still cold and a bit blustery tomorrow, just not quite on par with today’s frigidity.
—A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2024
Yet the effect is of the gentle quiet of snowfall, rather than the lethal frigidity of an icicle.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2022
So much passion and excitement and intensity and perverse directness and also extreme frigidity and passivity.
—Emma Madden, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2022
But despite having arrived at the inner suburbs of the coming season, Friday offered few clues to the days of frost and frigidity that experience and meteorology have located in our not-far-off future.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2022
The same phenomenon may be causing abnormal spells of extreme heat and blasts of polar frigidity, because the jet stream winds that normally break up weather patterns and drive storm systems are weaker.
—Scott Dance and Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Sep. 2022
Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2025
However, something is belying Ciara’s frigidity during this conversation.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2025
Anticipating frigidity, the organizers of the 2025 iteration (Donald Trump’s, reprise) moved the event indoors, to the Capitol Rotunda, whose limited capacity of six hundred people helpfully delineated who was in and who was on the outs.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2025
Still cold and a bit blustery tomorrow, just not quite on par with today’s frigidity.
—A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2024
Yet the effect is of the gentle quiet of snowfall, rather than the lethal frigidity of an icicle.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2022
So much passion and excitement and intensity and perverse directness and also extreme frigidity and passivity.
—Emma Madden, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2022
But despite having arrived at the inner suburbs of the coming season, Friday offered few clues to the days of frost and frigidity that experience and meteorology have located in our not-far-off future.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2022
The same phenomenon may be causing abnormal spells of extreme heat and blasts of polar frigidity, because the jet stream winds that normally break up weather patterns and drive storm systems are weaker.
—Scott Dance and Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Sep. 2022
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“Frigidity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frigidity. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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