feelinglessadj.
/ˈfiːlɪŋlᵻs/, U.S. /ˈfilɪŋlᵻs/ Devoid of feeling; without emotion or sensation.
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective]
unpassionatea1586
dispassionate1595
kindlessa1596
stupid1595
passionless1603
unpassioned?1605
unpassionated1611
impassionate1621
dispassioneda1631
dispassionated1647
feelinglessa1658
superior1667
unimpassioned1744
throbless1748
apathistical1797
emotionless1800
unemotioned1817
neutrologistic1824
frog-hearted1829
unimpassionate1845
disimpassioned1860
impressionless1864
unemotional1876
sentimentless1880
a1658 J. Durham Heaven upon Earth (1685) 328 It makes the Conscience to become cauterized, senseless, and feelingless, as the flesh is.
1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 8 622 Of savage Windram, feelingless and fierce.
1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 303 For some time his [sc. Turner's] work is, apparently, feelingless.
1876 H. Spencer Princ. Sociol. (1877) I. 479 Feelingless units and units which monopolize feeling.
a1917 W. De Morgan Old Madhouse (1919) xxxiii. 533 Oblivion is feelingless, and Death is Oblivion.
1995 Independent on Sunday 12 Feb. 26/3 But there are good special effects..and an amusing sub-plot involving the cultish Spock-replacement, Data, a feelingless android.
Derivatives
ˈfeelinglessly adv.
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adverb]
unappassionately1598
stupidlya1626
dispassionately1717
impassively1828
apathetically1831
passionlessly1831
soullessly1832
stockishly1846
unresponsively1853
feelinglessly1856
stolidly1856
insensately1863
impassibly1872
unemotionally1884
stonily1899
insensitively1961
1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters III. 169 Such expressions are not ignorantly and feelinglessly caught up.
1906 J. Jastrow Subconscious i. ii. 12 The process goes on feelinglessly, makes no report to consciousness because none is needed.
2002 C. Day Spirit & Place (2003) i. 26/2 Builders produce the feelinglessly practical from the most sensitive designs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.a1658- to beat the liver and lights out of
- to beat the liver and lights out of a person
- to beat the liver and lights out of a thing
- to beat the living daylight out of
- to beat the living daylights out of
- to beat the living shit, hell, etc, out of
- to beat the living shit, hell, etc, out of a person
- to beat the living shit, hell, etc, out of a thing
- to beat the market
- to beat the nail back
- to beat the pants off
- to beat the pants off a person
- to beat the pistol
- to beat the price
- to beat the rap
- to beat the rappel
- to beat the record
- to beat the reveille
- to beat the soul case out of
- to beat the stream
- to beat the streets
- to beat the stuffing out of
- to beat the system
- to beat the tar out of
- to beat the trade