imperturbability

1. 1.

   calm and unruffled self-assurance

   “he performed with all the coolness of a veteran”

   Synonymscoolnessimperturbableness

   Broadercalmness

Other forms of imperturbability

plural

imperturbabilities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about imperturbability

What does imperturbability mean?

imperturbability means "calm and unruffled self-assurance".

How many syllables are in imperturbability?

imperturbability has 7 syllables: im-per-tur-ba-bi-li-ty. The stress falls on "bi".

What is another word for imperturbability?

Close synonyms include coolness, imperturbableness. 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 imperturbability a common word?

imperturbability 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.