emotionlessnessn.
/ᵻˈməʊʃnləsnəs/, U.S. /əˈmoʊʃənləsnəs/, /iˈmoʊʃənləsnəs/ The quality, state, or condition of being emotionless.
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun]
indolency1603
unpassionateness1611
non-feelingness1650
indolence1656
dispassion1690
dryness1748
dispassionateness1842
passionlessness1867
emotionlessness1873
1873 J. P. Lacroix tr. A. Wuttke Christian Ethics II. i. i. 50 Emotionlessness, blunt indifference toward external objects, is always..a sign of deep moral degradation.
1898 H. Flowerdew Celibate's Wife (1899) xiv. 135 Her marble mould of pious artificial emotionlessness.
1921 T. R. Glover Jesus in Exper. Men xiii. 219 One of their ideals was ‘Emotionlessness’.
1975 Jrnl. Aesthetic Educ. 9 49 Pound sensed a symptom of a coldness, of a kind of emotionlessness he felt to be creeping into the ‘hard light, clear edges’ of the new poetical school.
1997 S. Pinker How Mind Works (1998) vi. 372 Spock's emotionlessness really just amounted to his being in control.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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