passionlessness
- a word derived from passionless.
Example Sentences
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“During the Victorian period, the idea of female passionlessness came to identify ideal womanhood,” Carolyn Bronstein, associate professor at DePaul University, told me during a 2012 interview.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2016
The Stoic extreme of passionlessness is almost as false as the Epicurean hedonism, and the mean between them is the ideal Jewish life, in which godliness and humanity are blended.
From Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Bentwich, Norman
The gentleness, the dreamy passionlessness of those features—the immense repose of the whole figure—are full of beauty and charm.
From The Empire of the East by Montgomery, H. B. (Helen Barrett)
The gentleness, the dreamy passionlessness of those features,—the immense repose of the whole figure—are full of beauty and charm.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Hearn, Lafcadio
But there are two Nirvanas;—that of entire passionlessness attained in this life, and the consummate Nirvana entered at death.
From History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Menzies, Allan
