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impassivity

noun

Etymology

From impassive + -ity.

  1. derived from *peh₁-✻
  2. derived from passivus
  3. derived from passif
  4. inherited from passyf
  5. formed as impassive — “im- + passive”
  6. suffixed as impassivity — “impassive + ity”

Definitions

  1. The state of being impassive.

    • He wore gold-rimmed pince-nez, and had a curious impassivity of feature. It struck me that he might look natural on a stage, but was strangely out of place in real life.
    • [T]hey were baffled by tears in moustached sixth-formers, by walls of impassivity in the Lower School, by silent conspiracies which nullified the rules.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA