unpassion

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noun

Lack of passion; impassivity.

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Meanings

noun
  1. Lack of passion; impassivity.

    Oh! merry days of unpassion, never to return / Oh! infancy! thou hast fled, fled, fled, but whither?

    1912, From Mendelssohn to Wagner...Memoirs, page 371
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    we exercise our cool minds in the cool air and try for unpassion but the ache of the red desert sings silently like a cicada before emerging from the night

    1994, Hot Collation, page 155

    Its aim was achievement of "ataraxy," "un-stirred-up-ness" or tranquillity, a condition of the soul not very different from Stoic "apathy" or "unpassion."

    2000, Wallace I. Matson, A New History of Philosophy: From Thales to Ockham, →ISBN, page 195

Origin

From un- + passion.

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