FROSTINESS Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

frostiness

noun

Definition of frostiness

as in coldness

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Recent Examples of frostiness One of the points of the posturing — in aerial ballets that take place away from public gaze hundreds of times a year — is to try to ensure that the frostiness between NATO and the Kremlin over Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine doesn't tilt into open hostility. — ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026

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Noun

In this attitude was a strange commingling of repugnance and desire, alienation and belonging, intimacy and coldness.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 July 2026
Her fierce intelligence helps paper over some of the screenplay’s rougher transitions, and even lends a measure of legibility to Sylvia’s sudden coldness.

— Natalia Winkelman, Variety, 16 June 2026

Definition of coldness

Noun

Scientists speculated that a slow metabolism and the frigidity of the water may have combined to keep the octopus mother alive.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 May 2026
Before there were ice rollers, cryo masks, and other face-cooling tools that purport to firm and smooth skin with the power of frigidity, there was the simple act of dunking one's face in a bowl of icy water.

— Marci Robin, Allure, 14 Jan. 2026

Definition of frigidity

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frostiness

frosting

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