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impassiveness

 

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




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