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impassiveness

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im·pas·sive  (m-psv)
adj.
1. Devoid of or not subject to emotion.
2. Revealing no emotion; expressionless.
3. Archaic Incapable of physical sensation.
4. Motionless; still.
[in- + passive, suffering (obsolete).]
im·passive·ly adv.
im·passive·ness, impas·sivi·ty n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.impassivenessimpassiveness - apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions
emotionlessness, impassivity, phlegm, stolidity, unemotionality, indifference
apathy - an absence of emotion or enthusiasm
Translations
impassiveness, impassivity
n → Gelassenheit f


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The Sphinx has one hundred and fifty qualifications for impassiveness which you lack.
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Addressing her composed face, whose intelligence, however, is too quick and active to be concealed by any studied impassiveness, however habitual, to the strong Saxon face of the visitor, a picture of resolution and perseverance, my Lady listens with attention, occasionally slightly bending her head.
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This caused so rapid and complete a diversion from the attack that D'Artagnan's adversary, while the latter turned round to face this shower of blows, sheathed his sword with the same precision, and instead of an actor, which he had nearly been, became a spectator of the fight--a part in which he acquitted himself with his usual impassiveness, muttering, nevertheless, "A plague upon these Gascons
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