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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  an indifference to pleasure or pain
  2. [n]  apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions
 
 Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassiveness, impassivity, indifference, phlegm, stoicism, stolidness, unemotionality
 
 See Also: apathy, emotionlessness, unemotionality

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Sto*lid"i*ty\, n. [L. stoliditas.]
The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect;
obtuseness; stupidity.

      Indocile, intractable fools, whose stolidity can baffle
      all arguments, and be proof against demonstration
      itself.                                  --Bentley.

 

 

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