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Incapable of suffering or of experiencing pain.

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Usage examples (8)
  • I had a vested interest; and whatever tended either to its culture or its destruction, I could not view impassibly.
  • Ali had impassibly resumed the driver's seat and, at a nod from his adored master, started the spirited horses down the immense avenue.
  • Meanwhile Ali, with the habitual fatalism of his nation, had resigned himself in advance to whatever might happen and drove straight onward with his eyes impassibly...
  • In truth, nobody attempts to resist her order, impassibly given.
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