Definition of Emotionlessness

1. Noun. Apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions.


2. Noun. Absence of emotion.

Definition of Emotionlessness

1. Noun. The property of being emotionless. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Emotionlessness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Emotionlessness

emotionalistic
emotionalists
emotionalities
emotionality
emotionalization
emotionalizations
emotionalize
emotionalized
emotionalizes
emotionalizing
emotionally
emotioned
emotionful
emotionless
emotionlessly
emotionlessness
emotionlike
emotionology
emotions
emotiovascular
emotive
emotively
emotiveness
emotivism
emotivisms
emotivities
emotivity
emotronic
emove
emoved

Literary usage of Emotionlessness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Jesus in the Experience of Men by Terrot Reaveley Glover (1921)
"“Emotionlessness” was bound to work out into inhuman insensibility; it was inwardly a selfish counsel, a counsel of despair, to steel the heart to keep it ..."

2. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"But the modern use of the term apathy is rather popular than technical ; although it has the same signification of emotionlessness. ..."

3. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"But the modern use of the term apathy is rather popular than technical ; although it has the same signification of emotionlessness. ..."

4. History of Ancient Philosophy by Wilhelm Windelband (1921)
"This ideal was consequently first defined negatively as the independence of will and conduct from the passions (Affekte). This apathy (emotionlessness) of ..."

5. The History of Modern Painting by Richard Muther (1907)
"... whose silent grief is of such thrilling power, precisely because of its emotionlessness. For " Iphigenia " Feuerbach has given of his best. ..."

6. The Psychology of Public Speaking by Walter Dill Scott (1907)
"... of his case the attendant physician says: " Nothing surprises or astonishes him. His state of apathy, of indifference, of extreme emotionlessness, ..."

7. From Studio to Stage: Reminiscences of Weedon Grossmith by Weedon Grossmith (1913)
"He will present tragic happenings consequent on the little follies, meannesses and passions of mankind with an emotionlessness which would be called ..."

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