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UNEMOTIONALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unemotionality mean? 

UNEMOTIONALITY (noun)
  The noun UNEMOTIONALITY has 2 senses:

1. apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactionsplay

2. absence of emotionplay

  Familiarity information: UNEMOTIONALITY used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNEMOTIONALITY (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 ("unemotionality" is a kind of...):

apathy (an absence of emotion or enthusiasm)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Absence of emotion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

emotionlessness; unemotionality

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

trait (a distinguishing feature of your personal nature)

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

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)

Antonym:

emotionality (emotional nature or quality)

Derivation:

unemotional (unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion)


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