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unexcitable

adj

Etymology

From un- + excitable.

  1. derived from excitō — “to call out, call forth, arouse, wake up, stimulate”
  2. derived from exciter
  3. inherited from exciten
  4. formed as excitable — “excite + -able”
  5. formed as unexcitable — “un- + excitable”

Definitions

  1. Not excitable, not easily excited.

  2. Not capable of being excited.

    • But suppose that these pretended living Stones of the Temple of God were as unexcitable to Pride or Lust as the dead Stones of the walls of a Church […]
    • Isabella […] had been misled, as most inexperienced observers are in similar cases, by the tranquillity of Eliot’s manner; she respected and liked him exceedingly; but she thought him unexcitable, and incapable of passion.

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