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unpassion en · NOUN

Etymology

From un- + passion.

Meanings

  1. Lack of passion; impassivity.
    • 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." 2000, Wallace I. Matson, A New History of Philosophy: From Thales to Ockham, →ISBN, page 195:
    • 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 1994, Hot Collation, page 155:
    • Oh! merry days of unpassion, never to return / Oh! infancy! thou hast fled, fled, fled, but whither? 1912, From Mendelssohn to Wagner...Memoirs, page 371: