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Meanings of impassiveness in English
Apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions.
Synonyms
Examples for "indifference"
Examples for "indifference"
1
At a regional and national level, however, there has been political indifference.
2
Tsunamis carried away cities, land reclamation projects, and workers with equal indifference.
3
At best they can win a level of indifference about the government.
4
Might my apparent indifference have cost Tom his only chance for work?
5
The men utter similar salutations; and Sekeletu receives all with becoming indifference.
1
Remember: Green phlegm does not necessarily mean there is a bacterial infection.
2
Snake gall bladder proves especially effective in dissolving phlegm and improving vision.
3
Chambers and Mitchell, on the other hand, behaved with traditional British phlegm.
4
The room had an odor of phlegm and his breathing was strenuous.
5
Their phlegm leads me on, and I say more than I ought.
1
The stolidity of stupidity is, of course, commonest among the peasant class.
2
Syme received the remark with stolidity, imagining it to be a joke.
3
Her grave demeanor, now lapsing into apparent stolidity, can be readily understood.
4
Five and a half feet of stolidity, he'd done well at Shiloh.
5
There is no stolidity so utter as that of a waterless tap.
1
His pity was visible, quivering a little under his mask of impassivity.
2
My face must have betrayed more than conventional impassivity, for Evarin smiled.
3
This thing's only just begun, said Frank, with that same odd impassivity.
4
Curiously, she looked upon the impending crisis with the impassivity of a bystander.
5
She would find it impossible to outdo him in the matter of impassivity.
1
She was emotional, too, with an innocent emotionlessness, and very affectionate.
2
I level a gaze at Sir, whose face rests in the emotionlessness he wears so well.
3
His face had resumed its usual emotionlessness.
4
Simeon is an equally cold hearted man, standing as a representative of the emotionlessness often thought of as uniquely Victorian.
Usage of impassiveness in English
1
His swarthy face was lined, seamed, and terrible with a dark impassiveness.
2
He always either grinned or his face had a half savage impassiveness.
3
Kat was still standing in the same place, watching him with impassiveness.
4
Cynthia's impassiveness, her complete poise, had fascinated Miss Duncan with the others.
5
The stolid impassiveness of the Swiss seemed on the point of giving way.
6
The people behaved with the correct impassiveness of an Anglican congregation.
7
The Sphinx has one hundred and fifty qualifications for impassiveness which you lack.
8
He came running out of the ghost trees, all his cold impassiveness gone.
9
And he was aware of this impassiveness concealing a lucid astonishment.
10
Impatient he became, at times, with her impassiveness, and fretted by her coldness.
11
He spoke no word; his dark impassiveness invited no comment.
12
The attitude is very striking, in its proud, indignant impassiveness.
13
He grew crimson at a sarcasm whose impassiveness made it all the more cutting.
14
His silence and apparent impassiveness angered the irreverent little worthy.
15
All the queer tankards, and cupboards, and carved chairs listened with their wonted impassiveness.
16
The old man answered with the same brutal impassiveness:
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Translations for impassiveness
Portuguese
Impassiveness through the time
Impassiveness across language varieties
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