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In some cases the frigidity is congenital, that is, the lack of desire with inability to experience pleasure during the act is inborn.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to a condition that is present at birth, as a result of either heredity or environmental influences: a congenital heart defect; congenital syphilis.
  2. adjective Being or having an essential characteristic as if by nature; inherent or inveterate: "the congenital American optimism that denies conflicts and imagines all stories having happy endings” (Robert J. Samuelson). See Synonyms at innate.

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  1. From Latin congenitus : com-, com- + genitus, born, past participle of gignere, to bear; see genə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French congénital; as congenite + -al.
 

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/kənˈdʒɛnɪtəl/
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