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The quality or state of being incapable of suffering pain; The quality or state of being incapable of suffering harm; Quality or state of being incapable of emotion;

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Usage examples (33)
  • + The first is "impassibility", which shall place them beyond the reach of pain and inconvenience.
  • Such impassibility exasperated Matho and he exclaimed:
  • Transfiguration; and impassibility at the Last Supper, when He gave
  • Serge had listened to all this with disdainful impassibility, and when
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