froideur

plural froideurs

1. uncountableusuallyA cold or indifferent manner.
2. uncountableusuallyA chill in relations.

   "There was a froideur between the Bank of England and the Swiss central bank for some time," recalled Collins.

   2001, Ron Chernow, The House of Morgan, →ISBN, page 548

   2 more examples

   When I look over at Chase[…] he stares back at Baron with such withering froideur that he resembles one of those Dust Bowl farmers in a Dorothea Lange portrait.

   2021 May 7, Barrett Swanson, “The Anxiety of Influencers”, in Harper's Magazine

   But anyone who thinks this is a time of unusual froideur between citizen and citizen either misremembers the past or didn't live through it.

   2026 January 24, Janan Ganesh, “A liberal in illiberal times”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20

   Synonyms: antipathy, hostility