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Definition of Impassivity
1. Noun. Apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions.
Generic synonyms: Apathy
Derivative terms: Emotionless, Impassive, Impassive, Impassive, Phlegmatic, Phlegmatical, Stolid
Definition of Impassivity
1. n. The quality of being insusceptible of feeling, pain, or suffering; impassiveness.
Definition of Impassivity
1. Noun. the state of being impassive ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Impassivity
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Impassivity
| impastation impastations impaste impasted impastes impasting impasto impastoed impastos impasture | impastured impastures impasturing impatent |
Literary usage of Impassivity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (1899)
"The distinction of Phipps is his impassivity. He has been termed by enthusiasts
the Ideal Butler. The Sphinx is not so incommunicable. ..."
2. The Western Front: Drawings by Muirhead Bone (1917)
"... is always struck by the contrast between the restless stir of the minute
figures busy about it and the massive impassivity—for the present—of the thing ..."
3. William Ewart Gladstone and His Contemporaries: Seventy Years of Social and by Thomas Archer (1903)
"His impassivity and indolence was a frequent subject for the pencil of IB, who
would represent him lying asleep ..."
4. The Concise Dictionary of Religious Knowledge and Gazetteer by Talbot Wilson Chambers, Frank Hugh Foster, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1889)
"Eccl., TU., 23), as if thereby he introduced a new policy, though the fact seems
to be that he simply fell back into the olil Roman tradition of impassivity ..."
5. Madame Tallien: Notre Dame de Thermidor, from the Last Days of the French by Louis Gastine (1913)
"Only once have I since beheld upon the political stage a living face whose
stillness seemed to vie with, nay, even to transcend, the cold impassivity of ..."
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