Empathy and Impassiveness

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Empathy noun - Understanding and entering into another's feelings.

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Impassiveness is an antonym for empathy.

Impassiveness noun - A lack of emotion or emotional expressiveness.

Usage example: the child's inexplicable impassiveness, after all he'd been through, was a source of concern for his relatives

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Empathy is an antonym for impassiveness.

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Impassiveness and Empathy. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/empathy/impassiveness

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