Definition of impassible in English:
impassible
adjective ɪmˈpasɪb(ə)lɪmˈpæsəbəl
Theology 1Incapable of suffering or feeling pain.
belief in an impassible God
Example sentencesExamples
- Further, if the suffering of God in Christ affected God's divine nature it would mean that it was someone other than the eternal impassible Creator who was experiencing human suffering.
- On the other hand, the bodies of the saints will be impassible, because they will lack the capability of suffering; hence impassibility in them will be a gift, but not in children.
- And according to this He gave His body in an impassible and immortal condition to His disciples.
- Aquinas accepted Aristotle's view that God cannot change and is impassible.
- So God, being that than which nothing greater can be thought, is wholly active; he is impassible.
- 1.1archaic Incapable of feeling or emotion.
Origin
Middle English: via Old French from ecclesiastical Latin impassibilis, from Latin in- 'not' + passibilis (see passible).
Definition of impassible in US English:
impassible
adjectiveɪmˈpæsəbəlimˈpasəbəl
Theology Incapable of suffering or feeling pain.
belief in an impassible God
Example sentencesExamples
- Aquinas accepted Aristotle's view that God cannot change and is impassible.
- And according to this He gave His body in an impassible and immortal condition to His disciples.
- On the other hand, the bodies of the saints will be impassible, because they will lack the capability of suffering; hence impassibility in them will be a gift, but not in children.
- So God, being that than which nothing greater can be thought, is wholly active; he is impassible.
- Further, if the suffering of God in Christ affected God's divine nature it would mean that it was someone other than the eternal impassible Creator who was experiencing human suffering.
Origin
Middle English: via Old French from ecclesiastical Latin impassibilis, from Latin in- ‘not’ + passibilis (see passible).