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Impassivity is the state of not showing emotion — a blank look as a thing you can name. A person’s impassivity can calm a room, or it can feel cold. It is the noun for , and it is rather formal; in everyday talk people more often say “a blank look” or “no expression”. Though actually, it still does not decide whether feelings are absent inside, only that they are not on show.
面無表情；不動聲色（名詞：不把情緒露出來）
組成impassive + -ity (turns the adjective into a noun).
同家族的字
- impassivethe adjective this noun is built from
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
impassivitynoun
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The state of being impassive.
- He wore gold-rimmed pince-nez, and had a curious impassivity of feature. It struck me that he might look natural on a stage, but was strangely out of place in real life.
- [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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。