impassive
adjective
without emotion; apathetic; unmoved.
impassiveness
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a word derived from
impassive.
Example Sentences
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Yet what makes the character work is the poignant impassiveness that conveys just how brutally life has hollowed him out.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
His expression is somewhere between remorse and impassiveness.
From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2016
By this point, I admit, I was feeling the first twinges of annoyance with his impassiveness and growing less inclined to make allowances for it due to the fact of his being dead.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2013
RP2 Chute looked on, his impassiveness masking his disdain for talk of angels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2010
Now and again one or other of the officers came up to me; and to all alike I adopted an attitude of cold and stolid impassiveness.
From By Right of Sword by Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) Marchmont
