2. Adjective. (psychology) Incapable of empathy. ¹
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Definition of Affectionless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affectionless
Literary usage of Affectionless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Matthew Arnold: How to Know Him by Stuart Pratt Sherman (1917)
"... so that they who at first, before this Communion, had felt themselves distressed
and affectionless, after the refreshment of this meat and drink from ..."
2. The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by Bernard Shaw (1909)
"As a god, he is to be great, secure, and mighty; but he is also to be passionless,
afFectionless, wholly impartial; for Godhead, if it is to live with Law, ..."
3. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"It is not surprising, therefore, that the placental invasion resulted in the
clumsy, affectionless, small-brained reptiles being driven either into ..."
4. A College Text-book of Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1909)
"is not surprising, therefore, that the rise of the mammals drove the clumsy,
affectionless, small-brained reptiles either into extinction, ..."
5. The Finality of the Christian Religion by George Burman Foster (1906)
"... estranged world only in case it contained in itself a world-force; ie, in case
it was able to set up an impersonal, affectionless, objective activity. ..."
6. Modern Educators and Their Ideals by Tadasu Misawa (1909)
"From a lifeless and affectionless home he fled to the bosom of animated Nature,
and thus to his mystic pantheism. He writes, in his recollections, ..."
7. The Canadian Monthly and National Review by William White (1873)
"... reality takes the disagreeable form of jealousy, and he becomes as uncomfortable
a companion as a conceited head, and a withered, affectionless heart, ..."
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