What is the meaning of impassive?

adjective

  • Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited.
    • usage: "her impassive remoteness"; "he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern for our plight- Nordhoff & Hall; "a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course-Virginia Woolf; "her face showed nothing but stolid indifference"
  • Deliberately impassive in manner.
    • usage: "deadpan humor"; "his face remained expressionless as the verdict was read"
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