as in impassivity
a lack of emotion or emotional expressiveness
the child's inexplicable impassiveness, after all he'd been through, was a source of concern for his relatives
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Over time, some people even begin experiencing side effects, emotional numbness or a feeling that the medication is no longer helping in the same way.
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Webb, the Oklahoma radiologist, documented four times that a patient lacked numbness, and yet his WISeR application was still denied, citing numbness, which, in the reviewer's interpretation, would rule out the spinal surgery procedure.
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In the lead-up to this summer’s FIFA men’s World Cup, critics complained about prices, domestic politics, international geopolitics, supposed fan apathy, logistical hurdles and more.
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Does this show reveal more to me how the most vulnerable amongst us are suffering as a result of disinterest, apathy, greed?
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He was used to being alone without Robin and postretirement but being alone in the interminable stretch of predawn hours was a different sort of emptiness.
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Work gives you somewhere to point your attention, somewhere to put the grief, the sadness, the emptiness.
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Veeze’s signature rapping voice, which sounds like his vocal cords are coated in phlegm and cough syrup, is increasingly versatile, despite the sometimes half-asleep delivery.
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The phlegm is then examined under a microscope for the telltale tuberculosis bacteria.
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Her fierce intelligence helps paper over some of the screenplay’s rougher transitions, and even lends a measure of legibility to Sylvia’s sudden coldness.
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The bureaucratic coldness of Bolshevik Communism and the violent regressions of Fascism were yet worse.
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“Impassiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impassiveness. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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