passionless
adjective
not feeling or moved by passion; cold or unemotional; calm or detached.
passionlessness
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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 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 H. B. (Helen Barrett) Montgomery
Men, driven on by thirst, run about like a snared hare; let therefore the mendicant drive out thirst, by striving after passionlessness for himself.
From Dhammapada, a collection of verses; being one of the canonical books of the Buddhists by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
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 Lafcadio Hearn
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 Norman Bentwich
