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Answer for the clue "Devoid of passion or feeling ", 13 letters:
unfeelingness

Word definitions for unfeelingness in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. devoid of passion or feeling [syn: callousness , hardness , insensibility ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state or condition of being unfeeling.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unfeeling \Un*feel"ing\, a. Destitute of feeling; void of sensibility; insensible; insensate. Without kind feelings; cruel; hard-hearted. To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling ...

Usage examples of unfeelingness.

The mass institution of modern industrially based medicine, with its vast array of expensive machinery and industrially produced drugs seems to produce results consonant with the quality of civilization itself- mechanicalness, unfeelingness and human alienation.

A genuinely feeling soul has an insuperable repugnance alike for unfeelingness, for false feeling, and for false expressions of feeling.

Oxigenov told me all this, even flaunting his unfeelingness and carelessness somewhat, as if thereby doing me honor, that is, showing that he took me to be just such an all-denying higher being as himself, for whom dying, naturally, amounts to nothing.

Perdido saw this apparent unfeelingness in Billy, and thought ill of him for it.

Hence our holy duty of feeling, hence the shame in unfeelingness, in powerlessness to awaken the woman to desire.