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impassiveness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of impassiveness

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

Synonyms of impassiveness

affectlessness, apathy, emotionlessness, impassivity, insensibility, numbness, phlegm

Words Related to impassiveness

bloodlessness, callosity, callousness, coldness, coolness, halfheartedness, hard-heartedness, hardness, heartlessness, imperturbability, insensitivity, obduracy

blankness, deadness, emptiness, vacancy

aloofness, detachment, indifference, unconcern

stiffness, woodenness

Near Antonyms of impassiveness

compassion, empathy, pity, sympathy

receptiveness, receptivity, responsiveness, sensitivity

solicitude, tenderness, understanding, warmth

hand-wringing, histrionics, hysteria, hysterics, melodrama

Antonyms of impassiveness

emotion, feeling, sensibility

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