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Dispassionate vs Frigid - What's the difference?

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Dispassionate is a related term of frigid.


As adjectives the difference between dispassionate and frigid

is that dispassionate is not showing, and not affected by emotion, bias, or prejudice while frigid is very cold; lacking warmth; icy.

dispassionate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • not showing, and not affected by emotion, bias, or prejudice

    • Synonyms

    * nonpassionate * unpassionate

    Antonyms

    * passionate

    Derived terms

    * dispassionately * dispassionateness

    frigid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Very cold; lacking warmth; icy.
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    • , author=Nancy Langston , title=Mining the Boreal North , volume=101, issue=2, page=98 , magazine= citation , passage=Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.}}
  • Chilly in manner; lacking affection or zeal; impassive.
  • (colloquial) Sexually unresponsive, especially of a woman.

    • Related terms

    * frigidity * frigidly * frigidness

    Antonyms

    * fervid

    References

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