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Impassive

  1. adjective

    having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited; ; - Nordhoff & Hall; -Virginia Woolf

    “her impassive remoteness”

    Similar: stolid

  2. adjective

    deliberately impassive in manner

    “deadpan humor”

    Similar: deadpan, expressionless, unexpressive

Word family

impassiveness · impassivity · impassively

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Word parts

-ive