IMPASSIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impassiveness mean? 

• IMPASSIVENESS (noun)
  The noun IMPASSIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions

  Familiarity information: IMPASSIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPASSIVENESS (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 ("impassiveness" is a kind of...):

apathy (an absence of emotion or enthusiasm)

Derivation:

impassive (deliberately impassive in manner)

impassive (having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited)

 Context examples 

I told him exactly what had happened, and he listened with seeming impassiveness; but his nostrils twitched and his eyes blazed as I told how the ruthless hands of the Count had held his wife in that terrible and horrid position, with her mouth to the open wound in his breast.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)