EMOTIONLESSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emotionlessness mean? 

• EMOTIONLESSNESS (noun)
  The noun EMOTIONLESSNESS has 2 senses:

1. apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions

2. absence of emotion

  Familiarity information: EMOTIONLESSNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMOTIONLESSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

emotionlessness; impassiveness; impassivity; indifference; phlegm; stolidity; unemotionality

Hypernyms ("emotionlessness" is a kind of...):

apathy (an absence of emotion or enthusiasm)

Derivation:

emotionless (unmoved by feeling)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Absence of emotion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

emotionlessness; unemotionality

Hypernyms ("emotionlessness" is a kind of...):

trait (a distinguishing feature of your personal nature)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "emotionlessness"):

blandness (the trait of exhibiting no personal embarrassment or concern)

chilliness; coldness; coolness; frigidity; frigidness; iciness (a lack of affection or enthusiasm)

dispassion; dispassionateness; dryness (objectivity and detachment)

stoicism; stolidity; stolidness (an indifference to pleasure or pain)

Derivation:

emotionless (unmoved by feeling)