impassiveness

Questions about impassiveness

What does impassiveness mean?

impassiveness means "apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions".

How many syllables are in impassiveness?

impassiveness has 5 syllables and divides as im-pas-si-ve-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for impassiveness?

Close synonyms include emotionlessness, impassivity, phlegm, indifference, stolidity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is impassiveness a common word?

impassiveness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.