Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Impassiveness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being insusceptible of feeling, pain, or suffering; impassiveness.
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- noun the state of being
impassive
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions
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Examples
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He sat there watching through the windows in a kind of impassivity, as much as he could see of the method by which the racing-boat was attached by long, rigid rods to the steady floating raft that had risen from beneath.
Dawn of All Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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Knightley grows increasingly assured throughout the film, her emotionally volatile Sabina a foil for the doctors' poker-faced impassivity.
Erica Abeel: In Toronto, Storytelling Takes Center Stage Erica Abeel 2011
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Thoughtful impassivity is an unpopular pose, often cited by supporters as evidence the boss is "clueless".
Roy Hodgson's scream for help was a Match of the Day masterpiece | Martin Kelner 2012
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Arthur isn't one for showing his feelings — thus the 'mechanic' moniker — so it makes sense that the granite-faced Mr. Bronson has given way to another star schooled in the art of impassivity.
Hopkins Can't Right 'Rite' Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Ruth Harris's cultural history of the Dreyfus affair in turn-of-the-20th-century France provided insight not just into the shifting factions and carnival aspect of a public controversy, but also into how Alfred Dreyfus's "usual perplexing impassivity," as Ms. Harris put it, affected events.
Truth in Imagined Things Amy Waldman 2011
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Knightley grows increasingly assured throughout the film, her emotionally volatile Sabina a foil for the doctors' poker-faced impassivity.
Erica Abeel: In Toronto, Storytelling Takes Center Stage Erica Abeel 2011
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Knightley grows increasingly assured throughout the film, her emotionally volatile Sabina a foil for the doctors' poker-faced impassivity.
Erica Abeel: In Toronto, Storytelling Takes Center Stage Erica Abeel 2011
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Knightley grows increasingly assured throughout the film, her emotionally volatile Sabina a foil for the doctors' poker-faced impassivity.
Erica Abeel: In Toronto, Storytelling Takes Center Stage Erica Abeel 2011
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Knightley grows increasingly assured throughout the film, her emotionally volatile Sabina a foil for the doctors' poker-faced impassivity.
Erica Abeel: In Toronto, Storytelling Takes Center Stage Erica Abeel 2011
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Knightley grows increasingly assured throughout the film, her emotionally volatile Sabina a foil for the doctors' poker-faced impassivity.
Erica Abeel: In Toronto, Storytelling Takes Center Stage Erica Abeel 2011
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