Meanings
plural imperturbabilities
- countableuncountableA state of calm, unruffled self-assurance; aplomb, composure.
"As I sat alone at my breakfast--Mrs. Challenger is in the habit of keeping her room of a morning--it suddenly entered my head that it would be entertaining and instructive to see whether I could find any limits to this woman's imperturbability."
1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Italic*n̥-
- Latinin-
- Middle Englishin-
- Englishim-
- Englishperturbability
- Englishimperturbability
From im- + perturbability.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan impertorbabilitat
- impertorbabilitatcomposure
French imperturbabilité
- imperturbabilitécomposure
Italian imperturbabilità
- imperturbabilitàcomposure
Portuguese imperturbabilidade
- imperturbabilidadecomposure
Romanian imperturbabilitate
- imperturbabilitatecomposure
Russian невозмути́мость
- невозмути́мость (nevozmutímostʹ)composure
Spanish imperturbabilidad
- imperturbabilidadcomposure
Cite this entry
imperturbability. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/imperturbability
“imperturbability.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/imperturbability. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “imperturbability,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/imperturbability.
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