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EMOTIONLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emotionless mean? 

EMOTIONLESS (adjective)
  The adjective EMOTIONLESS has 1 sense:

1. unmoved by feelingplay

  Familiarity information: EMOTIONLESS used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EMOTIONLESS (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Unmoved by feeling

Synonyms:

emotionless; passionless

Context example:

this passionless girl was like an icicle in the sunshine

Similar:

cold (extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion)

Derivation:

emotionlessness (absence of emotion)

emotionlessness (apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions)


 Context examples 


Furuseth was right; I was abnormal, an “emotionless monster,” a strange bookish creature, capable of pleasuring in sensations only of the mind.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Humphrey Van Weyden, “the cold-blooded fish,” the “emotionless monster,” the “analytical demon,” of Charley Furuseth’s christening, in love!

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)



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