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EMOTIONLESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does emotionless mean?
• EMOTIONLESS (adjective)
The adjective EMOTIONLESS has 1 sense:
1. unmoved by feeling
Familiarity information: EMOTIONLESS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unmoved by feeling
Synonyms:
emotionless; passionless
Context example:
this passionless girl was like an icicle in the sunshine
Similar:
cold (extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion)
Derivation:
emotionlessness (absence of emotion)
emotionlessness (apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions)
Context examples
Furuseth was right; I was abnormal, an “emotionless monster,” a strange bookish creature, capable of pleasuring in sensations only of the mind.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Humphrey Van Weyden, “the cold-blooded fish,” the “emotionless monster,” the “analytical demon,” of Charley Furuseth’s christening, in love!
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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