Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being inexcitable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being inexcitable; insusceptibility to excitement.
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- noun The quality of being
inexcitable .
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Examples
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The inexcitability, this presence at all times of power not used, I regard as the great safeguard of our British people.
Increasing Human Efficiency in Business: A Contribution to the Psychology of Business 1910
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This inexcitability, this presence at all times of power not used, I regard, "continued Dr. Clouston," as the great safeguard of our British people.
Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals William James 1876
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The means of preventing the approach of age must therefore consist in preventing the inexcitability of the fibres, or the diminution of the production of sensorial power.
Note VII 1803
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The means of preventing the approach of age must therefore consist in preventing the inexcitability of the fibres, or the diminution of the production of sensorial power.
The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes Erasmus Darwin 1766
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