(n.) Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain or passion.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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