passionless
Americanadjective
adjective
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empty of emotion or feeling
a passionless marriage
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calm and detached; dispassionate
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Origin of passionless
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Interactions between characters feel hollow, no matter how well-lit or well-cast the scenes are, with a passionless non-ending that has little of substance to say about the period or its social morés.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
Vanilla can mean anything from “without a power dynamic” to simply passionless.
From Slate ● May 6, 2021
Len mocked the idea of a passionless passion.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019
It lost to the passionless “Lullaby of Broadway,” warbled by Winifred Shaw and then re-purposed, instrumentally, for a bonkers Busby Berkeley number.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2018
But again that passionless cold little voice stopped the words on his lips.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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