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expressionless, a.|ɛkˈsprɛʃənlɪs|
[f. expression + -less.]
1. Of the features, voice, etc. Destitute of expression; giving no indication of character, feeling, etc.; inexpressive. Const. of.
1831Wilson Blackw. Mag. XXIX. 301 An image as expressionless as the block on which his own buzz-wig was trimmed. 1859H. Kingsley G. Hamlyn I. xiii. 184 He was a small man, with an impenetrable, expressionless face. 1864Crowdy Ch. Choirmaster 53 Monotonic recitation is more expressionless than reading in the ordinary voice. 1870Dickens E. Drood ix, So expressionless of any approach to spontaneity were his face and manner.
b. Expressing nothing, conveying no meaning.
1871Tylor Prim. Cult. I. 215 But it may..become by wear of sound and shift of sense an expressionless symbol.
2. That finds no expression.
1819Shelley Cenci iii. i. 214 A wrong, Which, though it be expressionless, is such As asks atonement.
Hence exˈpressionlessly adv. exˈpressionlessness, the state or condition of being destitute of expression, want of expression.
1865Cornh. Mag. Aug. 225 Faces..expressive of ‘expressionlessness’. 1876G. Meredith Beauch. Career III. xii. 227 Rosamund eyed her husband expressionlessly. 1888W. C. Russell Death Ship III. 3 Faces whose expressionlessness forbade your comparing them to sleeping dreamers. |