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impassible
CIDE DICTIONARY
impassible, a. [L. impassibilis; pref. im- not + passibilis passable: cf. F. impassible. See Passible.].
Incapable of suffering; inaccessible to harm or pain; not to be touched or moved to passion or sympathy; unfeeling, or not showing feeling; without sensation. Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
"Secure of death, I should contemn thy dart
Though naked, and impassible depart." [1913 Webster]
Though naked, and impassible depart." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
impassible, adj.
1 impassive.
2 incapable of feeling or emotion.
3 incapable of suffering injury.
4 Theol. not subject to suffering.
1 impassive.
2 incapable of feeling or emotion.
3 incapable of suffering injury.
4 Theol. not subject to suffering.
Derivative
impassibility n. impassibleness n. impassibly adv.
Etymology
ME f. OF f. eccl.L impassibilis (as IN-(1), PASSIBLE)
ROGET THESAURUS
impassible
Insensibility
N insensibility, insensibleness, moral insensibility, inertness, inertia, vis inertiae, impassibility, impassibleness, inappetency, apathy, phlegm, dullness, hebetude, supineness, lukewarmness, cold fit, cold blood, cold heart, coldness, coolness, frigidity, sang froid, stoicism, imperturbation, nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes, insouciance, recklessness, callousness, heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness, torpor, torpidity, obstupefaction, lethargy, coma, trance, vegetative state, sleep, suspended animation, stupor, stupefaction, paralysis, palsy, numbness, neutrality, quietism, vegetation, insensible, unconscious, impassive, impassible, blind to, deaf to, dead to, unsusceptible, insusceptible, unimpressionable, unimpressible, passionless, spiritless, heartless, soulless, unfeeling, unmoral, apathetic, leuco-, phlegmatic, dull, frigid, cold blooded, cold hearted, cold as charity, flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous, torporific, sleepy, languid, half-hearted, tame, numbed, comatose, anaesthetic, stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned, palsy-stricken, indifferent, lukewarm, careless, mindless, regardless, inattentive, neglectful, disregarding, unconcerned, nonchalant, pococurante, insouciant, sans souci, unambitious, unaffected, unruffled, unimpressed, uninspired, unexcited, unmoved, unstirred, untouched, unshocked, unstruck, unblushing, unanimated, vegetative, callous, thick-skinned, hard-nosed, pachydermatous, impervious, hardened, inured, casehardened, steeled against, proof against, imperturbable, unfelt, insensibly, aequo animo, without being moved, without being touched, without being impressed, in cold blood, with dry eyes, with withers unwrung, never mind, macht nichts, it is of no consequence, it cannot be helped, nothing coming amiss, it is all the same to, it is all one to.For further exploring for "impassible" in Webster Dictionary Online