| 单词 |
affectlessness |
| 释义 |
affectlessness|əˈfɛktlɪsnɪs| [f. prec. + -ness.] Detachment; alienation; incapacity to feel emotion.
1947Amer. Imago IV. 89 (heading) Trends in affectlessness. 1958C. Geertz Modjokuto Relig. of Java vi. 120 Iklas, that state of affectlessness, is the watchword, and although it is often difficult to achieve, it is always striven for. 1964M. B. Scott in I. L. Horowitz New Sociology xv. 250 All the synonyms for alienation—affectlessness, aloneness, dehumanization, etc. 1967G. Legman Fake Revolt 22 Cool is the new venereal disease. Total affectlessness, the inability to feel. 1983Financial Times 28 Oct. i. 12 It takes only a tiny failure of dramatic imagination to turn what should be the stare of poignant stoicism into the stare of vacant affectlessness. |

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