Hypertext Webster Gateway: "impassiveness"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Impassive \Im*pas"sive\, a.
Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible;
unmoved.

Impassive as the marble in the quarry. --De Quincey.

On the impassive ice the lightings play. --Pope.
-- {Im*pas"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Im*pas"sive*ness}, n.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

impassiveness
n : apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions
[syn: {emotionlessness}, {impassivity}, {phlegm}, {indifference},
{stolidity}, {unemotionality}]


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