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Impassivity

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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.
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Noun1.Impassivityimpassivity - apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions
emotionlessness, impassiveness, phlegm, stolidity, unemotionality, indifference
apathy - an absence of emotion or enthusiasm


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But however great was the power of this woman with eyes of flame in reading the hearts of those whose secrets she wished to divine, she met this time with a countenance of such impassivity that no discovery followed her investigation.
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But why, unless for the love of the life those effigies shared with us in their wandering impassivity, should one try to reproduce in words an impression of whose fidelity there can be no critic and no judge, since such an exhibition of the art of shipbuilding and the art of figure-head carving as was seen from year's end to year's end in the open-air gallery of the New South Dock no man's eye shall behold again?
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The door was already closed, but between the curtains which his hands had drawn apart, Prince Maiyo was standing in the room which they had just quitted, and there was something in the calm impassivity of his white, stern face which seemed to madden her.
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