frigid /frij″id/ [L, frigidus, cold] , 1. lacking warmth of feeling; unemotional; unimaginative; without passion or ardor and stiff or formal in manner. 2. (of a woman) unresponsive to sexual advances or stimuli, abnormally indifferent or averse to sexual intercourse, or unable to have an orgasm during sexual intercourse. Compare impotence. See also orgasm. −frigidity, n.
