affectlessnessn.

1921 A. Hoch Benign Stupors Index 279 Affectlessness.

1947 Amer. Imago 4 89 (heading) Trends in affectlessness.

1958 C. Geertz Modjokuto vi. 120 Iklas, that state of affectlessness, is the watchword, and although it is often difficult to achieve, it is always striven for.

1967 G. Legman Fake Revolt 22 Cool is the new venereal disease. Total affectlessness, the inability to feel.

1983 Financial Times 28 Oct. i. 12 It takes only a tiny failure of dramatic imagination to turn what should be the stare of poignant stoicism into the stare of vacant affectlessness.

1990 C. Paglia Sexual Personae i. 15 She has an amoral affectlessness, a serene indifference to the suffering of others.

2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 July 44/1 Equally conventional, it seemed, was the affected affectlessness of the prose Peck used to describe the traumas his character suffered.