Definitions
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- noun The property of being
emotionless .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions
- noun absence of emotion
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sexual climax brings a feeling of emotionlessness, detachment, and numbness which quiets the feeling of anxiety and nervousness, however briefly.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Anthony Weiner and Why Powerful Men Self-Destruct Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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Sexual climax brings a feeling of emotionlessness, detachment, and numbness which quiets the feeling of anxiety and nervousness, however briefly.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Anthony Weiner and Why Powerful Men Self-Destruct Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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Sexual climax brings a feeling of emotionlessness, detachment, and numbness which quiets the feeling of anxiety and nervousness, however briefly.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Anthony Weiner and Why Powerful Men Self-Destruct Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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Which does cause some to actually leave their Veimpr village and their politeness/emotionlessness actually does the opposite and pushes people away more because who wants to be friends with someone who never laughs, grins, rarely gives the hint of a smile, and is constantly polite?
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Sexual climax brings a feeling of emotionlessness, detachment, and numbness which quiets the feeling of anxiety and nervousness, however briefly.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Anthony Weiner and Why Powerful Men Self-Destruct Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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Now there was no animation in any of us, as if Alessan's emotionlessness drained us as well.
Artichoke Christian Bell 2010
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This evocative, palpable atmosphere is unfortunately married to a very haphazard cinematic quality, as Tsai's reliance mostly on single-shot scenes and long takes means that if a certain composition does not work or the direction does not liven up the shot, an entire scene or series of scenes can pass by with a banality and emotionlessness that has been rare for the director.
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And then the almost invisible change in his face, as the hidden emotion sank down and the stoic indifference, the emotionlessness of centuries, and the stoic kind of tolerance came over him.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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Now there was no animation in any of us, as if Alessan's emotionlessness drained us as
Nerilka's Story McCaffrey, Anne 1986
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Beneath the drumhead of imposed emotionlessness, Flandry felt his body stiffen.
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974
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