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Mr. Tom Posted 7 years ago
Vocabulary

Impassive vs. emotionless

Hi

Would you that the N-grams surprise you a bit? I mean, I did not think that impassive would be more in use than emotionless or expressionless.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=emotionless%2Cexpressionless%2Cimpassive&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cemotionless%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cexpressionless%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cimpassive%3B%2Cc0

Thanks,

Tom

  

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I think of i mpassive and expressionless as roughly synonymous. I'm not surprised that emotionless is less common. You can look at someone and see that they are i mpassive or expressionless , but you can't really see that someone is emotionless.

— Clive

  • I think of i mpassive and expressionless as roughly synonymous.
  • I'm not surprised that emotionless is less common.
  • You can look at someone and see that they are i mpassive or expressionless , but you can't really see that someone is emotionless.
  • Clive
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I think of impassive and expressionless as roughly synonymous.

I'm not surprised that emotionless is less common. You can look at someone and see that they are impassive or expressionless, but you can't really see that someone is emotionless.

Clive

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