stolidityn.
/stəˈlɪdɪti/ The attribute of being stolid; dull impassiveness; incapacity for feeling.
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > want of or incapacity for emotion
dryheada1300
lethargyc1380
drynessc1450
dumping1542
unsensibility1551
insensibleness?1555
unsensibleness?1555
stupidity1568
stolidity1570
stupor1570
dumpishness1574
senselessness1577
innaturality1579
astoniedness1580
impassibility1603
stupefaction1603
torpor1607
deadness1611
unsufferance1611
hebetude1621
nonsense1621
drought1622
hebetation1623
obstupefaction1625
unanswerableness1626
tastelessnessa1631
insensateness1646
impassiveness1648
obtuseness1648
barrenness1655
torpulency1657
sterility1661
spiritlessness1669
unspiritedness1669
unaffectedness1678
insensibility1691
stolidness1727
apathy1742
impenetrableness1747
unfeelingness1766
impassivity1794
unfeeling1805
soullessness1811
incommobility1822
obtusity1823
unimpressibleness1830
hardhead1836
stockishness1837
insensitiveness1838
impenetrability1847
unreceptivity1849
unsusceptibility1850
woodenness1854
unimpressionability1862
irresponsiveness1864
unresponsiveness1869
impassibleness1874
irreceptivity1881
unimpressibility1889
apatheia1893
inemotivity1894
affectlessness1921
insensitivity1957
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1773/2 In which wordes note (good Reader) not onely the absurditie of doctrine, but also the stoliditie of the reason.
1658 J. Rowland Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 488 Aristophanes reproving the stolidity [1607 (ed. 1) solidity] of the Athenians, calleth them Sheep.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Notts. 316 Men in all Ages have made themselves merry with singling out some place, and fixing the staple of stupidity and stolidity therein.
1691 J. Hartcliffe Treat. Virtues 277 A principal defect of the Mind, which may be called Stolidity, or the Extremity of Dulness.
1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. iii. 67 The look of complacent and pompous stolidity.
1849 D. M. Mulock Ogilvies xix Leigh's countenance relapsed into its customary stolidity.
1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 221 We received the announcement with the stolidity of true Britons.
1910 Q. Rev. Apr. 567 His aim is to cultivate ‘a good healthy stolidity’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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