emotionless

English

Etymology

From emotion +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

emotionless (comparative more emotionless, superlative most emotionless)

1. Lacking emotion.
   • 2001, Dan Brown, Deception Point, →ISBN, page 72:

     Overhanging her precarious body was a jaundiced face whose skin resembled a sheet of parchment paper punctured by two emotionless eyes.

   • 2006, Michael Finkel, True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa‎^[1]:

     “I'd admit the past & monsterize myself in the eyes of the jury,” he wrote. “I would try to be emotionless, to add credibility to that monsterization.

Synonyms

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Derived terms

• emotionlessly
• emotionlessness

Translations

lacking emotion

• Bulgarian: студе́н (bg) (studén)
• Dutch: emotieloos (nl) n
• Finnish: tunteeton (fi)
• German: unbewegt, gefühllos (de), emotionslos (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀπαθής (apathḗs)

• Polish: beznamiętny (pl), bezuczuciowy
• Romanian: fără emoții m pl or f pl or n pl
• Slovene: brezčustven
• Swedish: känslolös (sv)
• Turkish: duygusuz (tr), hissiz (tr)
• Ukrainian: беземоці́йний (bezemocíjnyj)