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the slow art of freezing someone out without ever raising your voice
means The quality of being cold — whether literally chilly with frost, or figuratively distant, unfriendly, and emotionally aloof.
from From "frost," an Old English word (forst or frost) for frozen dew, with roots in the Proto-Germanic frustaz and ultimately the same ancient source as "freeze." The leap from weather to mood is old and intuitive: cold has long stood for the absence of warmth in people, so a frosty look or a frosty reception describes a chill you feel without a thermometer. The "-ness" simply turns the adjective "frosty" into the state of being so.
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