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Unresponsiveness

noun
1.
The quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events.  Synonym: deadness.  "In an instant all the deadness and withdrawal were wiped away"





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"Unresponsiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... be feared, and always—if possible—to be avoided. His are the qualities which distance enables us to recognize and value at their worth. He fills his place in the scheme of creation; but it is for us to see that his place is not next to ours at table, where his unresponsiveness narrows the conversational area, and dulls the contagious ardour of speech. He may add to the wisdom of the ages, but he ...
— Americans and Others • Agnes Repplier


Words linked to "Unresponsiveness" :   frigidness, frigidity, resistance, deadness, unresponsive, responsiveness, quality


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