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Definition of Impassibility
1. a. The quality or condition of being impassible; insusceptibility of injury from external things.
Definition of Impassibility
1. Noun. The state or condition of being impassible. ¹
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Definition of Impassibility
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impassibility
| impartibility impartible impartibly imparting impartment impartments imparts |
Literary usage of Impassibility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theology as an Empirical Science by Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1919)
"The case is similar with regard to impassibility, ie, the supposed absence of
suffering, and indeed of all feeling, or emotional life. ..."
2. A Portion of the Journal Kept by Thomas Raikes, Esq., from 1831 to 1847 by Thomas Raikes (1857)
"His forte is his impassibility and his cool and perfect judgment. He is very
silent, and is always stimulating those who approach him to talk on the ..."
3. Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works by Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)
"Carnis, where he, however, adds that our body, though it will still be by nature
passible, will receive the gift of impassibility (see ..."
4. A Manual of the History of Philosophy by Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann (1832)
"He made the character of a wise man to consist in apathy or impassibility (animus
impatiens, Senec. Ep. 9.): from which doctrine his disciple Zeno deduced a ..."
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