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impassibility

  • a word derived from impassible.
    impassible
    adjective
    incapable of suffering pain.
  • a word derived from passibility.
    passibility
    noun
    the quality of being passible; ability to feel and to suffer.

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It’s no longer in use; grass and dirt cover much of its surface, and the road at its far end is overgrown to the point of impassibility.

From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2018

What is this impassibility but freedom from the vices and passions, purity of heart, the adornment of virtue?

From On Union with God by P. J. Berthier

The impassibility of God is the corner-stone of spiritual monotheism.

From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by A. A. (Arthur Aston) Luce

To dart a lance at mythomania is his delight, while preserving the impassibility of a Parnassian.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker

I warrant I was well pleased, for all my weariness, when we rade in at Micklebar of York; and so, I warrant, was Dame Elizabeth, for all her impassibility.

From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin