emotionless

emotionless

English

Etymology

    From emotion + -less.

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    Adjective

    emotionless (comparative more emotionless, superlative most emotionless)

    1. Lacking emotion.
      • 2001, Dan Brown, Deception Point, →ISBN, page 72:
        Overhanging her precarious body was a jaundiced face whose skin resembled a sheet of parchment paper punctured by two emotionless eyes.
      • 2006, Michael Finkel, True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa[1]:
        “I'd admit the past & monsterize myself in the eyes of the jury,” he wrote. “I would try to be emotionless, to add credibility to that monsterization.

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