affectlessness
English
editEtymology
editFrom affectless + -ness.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editaffectlessness (uncountable)
- Emotional detachment; a lack of feeling. [from 20th c.]
- 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
- That is, she has an amoral affectlessness, a serene indifference to the suffering of others, which she invites and dispassionately observes as tests of her power.