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Meanings of stolidity in English

Portuguese
indiferença
Catalan
apatia
Spanish
impavidez

Apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions.

      indiferença
      Spanish
      asceticismo

      An indifference to pleasure or pain.

            asceticismo
            Usage of stolidity in English
            1
            The stolidity of stupidity is, of course, commonest among the peasant class.
            Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
            2
            Syme received the remark with stolidity, imagining it to be a joke.
            The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
            3
            Her grave demeanor, now lapsing into apparent stolidity, can be readily understood.
            An Historical Mystery (The Gondreville Mystery)
            4
            Five and a half feet of stolidity, he'd done well at Shiloh.
            The irish devil
            5
            There is no stolidity so utter as that of a waterless tap.
            Uneasy Money
            6
            Her father said nothing, but his face assumed a stolidity of expression.
            The Portion of Labor
            7
            There was a stolidity about Thomas that promised well for England's future.
            The Professional Aunt
            8
            There was something almost brutal and inhuman in his absolute stolidity.
            The Last Galley; Impressions and Tales
            9
            It lives in a sort of undisturbed stolidity, of nebulous slumber.
            The Unknown Guest
            10
            Assuredly they are not-inutter stolidity of platitude and absolute impotence of drivel.
            The Age of Shakespeare
            11
            Her manner evinced no surprise; her stolidity was grateful to him.
            A Dozen Ways Of Love
            12
            The Chinaman himself was shocked for a moment out of his Oriental stolidity.
            Bert Wilson in the Rockies
            13
            The old stolidity of stature was there, but hardly the solidity.
            Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl
            14
            The officer looked stolid, but his stolidity had the appearance of being assumed.
            Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz: Fighting with the U.S. Navy in Mexico
            15
            The girl turned and stared at her with a wooden stolidity of feature.
            Tom and Some Other Girls: A Public School Story
            16
            And they accepted them with all the stolidity native to Englishmen.
            Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army
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            Stolidity through the time
            Stolidity across language varieties
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