Crossword clues for impassivity
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impassivity \Im`pas*siv"i*ty\, n. The quality of being insusceptible of feeling, pain, or suffering; impassiveness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1794, from impassive + -ity.
Wiktionary
n. the state of being impassive
WordNet
n. apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions [syn: emotionlessness, impassiveness, phlegm, indifference, stolidity, unemotionality]
Usage examples of "impassivity".
She gave off the accumulated odours of libations, animal blood, kaoline, the irrepressible hopes of strangers, and a yellow impassivity.
The dapper neurolinguistics expert, small and fine-boned, ordinarily serene to the point of impassivity, looked oddly troubled.
The tribesmen shook the dust from their cloaks and stood proudly, their veiled faces giving an impression of remote impassivity beneath their hoods, fierce eyes fixed resolutely on nothing, refusing to be awed by crowds or buildings.
Phillipa Haymes was too wooden for Rosalind, her fairness and her impassivity were intensely English, but English of the twentieth rather than of the sixteenth century.
With the impassivity he’d learned at Sheik Barakah’s side, Wynter inclined his head to Lord Bucknell and gestured for Charlotte to enter.
Brinn and Cail watched as if they were the models for Vain's impassivity.
Father Wisdom now launched into a short homily, interlarded with quotations from the Buddhist scriptures, on the virtues of impassivity, ending with further commendation, in which Brother Simple joined, of Trinket's spiritual advancement.