impassive

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: im=pas=sive

CIDE DICTIONARY

impassive, a. 

 Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved.  [1913 Webster]
"Impassive as the marble in the quarry."  [1913 Webster]
"On the impassive ice the lightings play."

OXFORD DICTIONARY

impassive, adj.
1 a deficient in or incapable of feeling emotion. b undisturbed by passion; serene.
2 without sensation.
3 not subject to suffering.

Derivative

impassively adv. impassiveness n. impassivity n.

THESAURUS

impassive

Olympian, affectless, aloof, anesthetized, apathetic, arctic, at rest, autistic, backward, bashful, blank, blunt, bored, bovine, callous, calm, careless, catatonic, chill, chilled, chilly, cloistered, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, collected, composed, constrained, contained, controlled, cool, deadpan, detached, discreet, disinterested, dispassionate, distant, drugged, dry, dull, dwindling, ebbing, emotionally dead, emotionless, empty, even-tempered, even-tenored, expressionless, fishy, forbidding, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, glassy, guarded, halcyon, hardened, heartless, heedless, hushed, icy, immovable, impassible, impersonal, imperturbable, inaccessible, incurious, indifferent, indurated, inexcitable, inexpressive, inirritable, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insouciant, insusceptible, introverted, isolated, lackadaisical, listless, matter-of-fact, mindless, modest, moldering, nonchalant, nonemotional, objective, obtuse, offish, out of touch, pacific, passionless, patient, peaceable, peaceful, phlegmatic, placid, poker-faced, quiescent, quiet, regardless, remote, removed, reposeful, reposing, repressed, reserved, restful, resting, restrained, reticent, retiring, secluded, self-absorbed, sequestered, sequestrated, serene, sheltered, shrinking, smooth, soulless, spiritless, standoff, standoffish, steady, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stoical, stolid, stony, subdued, subsiding, suppressed, taciturn, tranquil, unaffable, unaffectionate, unagitated, unapproachable, uncaring, unconcerned, uncongenial, undemonstrative, undisturbable, undisturbed, unemotional, unexcitable, unexpansive, unexpressive, unfeeling, unflappable, ungenial, unimpassioned, unimpressible, unimpressionable, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unirritable, unloving, unmindful, unmoved, unnervous, unpassionate, unperturbed, unresponding, unresponsive, unruffled, unstirring, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, untroubled, vacant, waning, withdrawn, wooden

ROGET THESAURUS

impassive

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.

Incuriosity

N incuriosity, incuriousness, insouciance, indifference, lack of interest, disinterest, boredom, ennui (weariness), satiety, foreknowledge (foresight), incurious, uninquisitive, indifferent, impassive, uninterested, detached, aloof.