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impassivity

/im-pas-iv/US // ɪmˈpæs ɪv //UK // (ɪmˈpæsɪv) //

无能为力,无动于衷,无能,无效的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : without emotion; apathetic; unmoved.
    • : calm; serene.
    • : unconscious; insensible.
    • : not subject to suffering.

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nounapathy
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Examples

  • Tuttle rose lankly, his thin watery eyes staring with fixed impassivity.

  • The old feeling of family and race gives him an impassivity and a detachment of sacrifice which is beyond my understanding.

  • Something in Julia's handsome impassivity stirred the other to a rage, more becoming had she not been the arch offender.

  • Vincenzo sat still in the car, a model of patient impassivity, but he turned a hungry eye on his master as he came down the steps.

  • My head was whirling, but a graven image might have envied me my impassivity.