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passionlessness

Definitions

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  • noun The state or condition of being passionless; lack of passion.

Etymologies

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passionless +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • When you think of it, even without the modern marital problems of passionlessness and divorce I detailed above, marriage is a really bad deal for a woman.

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: The Centrality of Marriage in a Cynical Age Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2010

  • When you think of it, even without the modern marital problems of passionlessness and divorce I detailed above, marriage is a really bad deal for a woman.

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: The Centrality of Marriage in a Cynical Age Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2010

  • When you think of it, even without the modern marital problems of passionlessness and divorce I detailed above, marriage is a really bad deal for a woman.

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: The Centrality of Marriage in a Cynical Age Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2010

  • Men, driven on by thirst, run about like a snared hare; let therefore the mendicant drive out thirst, by striving after passionlessness for himself.

    The Dhammapada 2003

  • The best of ways is the eightfold; the best of truths the four words; the best of virtues passionlessness; the best of men he who has eyes to see.

    The Dhammapada 2003

  • This passionlessness is the most striking effect, or revelation, of the sexual revolution, and it makes the younger generation more or less incomprehensible to older folks.

    THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

  • This passionlessness is the most striking effect, or revelation, of the sexual revolution, and it makes the younger generation more or less incomprehensible to older folks.

    THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

  • Now, a lot of people perceived that as, say, passionlessness or the lack of the common touch, but it means that he didn't have a sense of what the ordinary people out there think, and religion is a large part of what the ordinary people out there think.

    Under God: Religion and American Politics 1990

  • Nancy Cott explored the cultural sources of the ideal of female passionlessness in the literature of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

    Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

  • In theory nineteenth-century marriage and sex manuals advocated male self-control and female passionlessness.

    Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

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