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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for frigidity
coldness
Noun
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But to the other, this is often construed as coldness or indifference.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Even when the glassy lakes thaw back into water, there’s this coldness that lingers.—
Leila Chatti
September 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Frigidity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frigidity. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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