impassivity

English

Etymology

impassive +‎ -ity

Noun

impassivity (usually uncountable, plural impassivities)

1. The state of being impassive.
   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 37:

     [T]hey were baffled by tears in moustached sixth-formers, by walls of impassivity in the Lower School, by silent conspiracies which nullified the rules.

Related terms

• passivity
• passive
• impatience