unpassion
English
Etymology
un- + passion
Noun
unpassion
- Lack of passion; impassivity.
- 1912, From Mendelssohn to Wagner...Memoirs, page 371:
- Oh! merry days of unpassion, never to return / Oh! infancy! thou hast fled, fled, fled, but whither?
- 1994, Hot Collation, page 155:
- we exercise our cool minds in the cool air and try for unpassion but the ache of the red desert sings silently like a cicada before emerging from the night
- 2000, Wallace I. Matson, A New History of Philosophy: From Thales to Ockham, →ISBN, page 195:
- Its aim was achievement of "ataraxy," "un-stirred-up-ness" or tranquillity, a condition of the soul not very different from Stoic "apathy" or "unpassion."
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