affectless

American  

[af-ekt-lis] / ˈæf ɛkt lɪs /

adjective

1. lacking feeling or emotion; indifferent to the suffering of others.

   an affectless, futuristic drama in which the human characters are virtually robots.

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affectless British  

/ əˈfɛktlɪs /

adjective

1. 1. showing no emotion or concern for others

   2. not giving rise to any emotion or feeling

      an affectless novel

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Other Word Forms

• affectlessness
  noun
• affectlessly
  adverb

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Etymology

Origin of affectless

First recorded in 1965–70; affect ¹ + -less

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Example Sentences

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affectless

Astrud Gilberto sings “The Girl from Ipanema” in a light, affectless style that influenced Sade and Suzanne Vega among others, as if she had already moved on to other matters.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

The use of an A.I. program to replicate Warhol’s flat, affectless speech to read the diary entries had a strangely fitting logic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2022

And the key to the mystery — not the solution to it but the dark center of it — is Swinton Byrne’s quiet, reserved, at times almost affectless performance.

From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2021

She was an animated witness whose simple humanity was a striking contrast with Zuckerberg, whose past testimony has been delivered with affectless condescension.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2021

Their relationship to manic-depressive insanity is so intimate that we must tentatively consider this affectless reaction as belonging to that larger group.

From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by John T. (John Thompson) MacCurdy

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