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Definition of Stolidity
1. Noun. Apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions.
Generic synonyms: Apathy
Derivative terms: Emotionless, Impassive, Impassive, Impassive, Phlegmatic, Phlegmatical, Stolid
2. Noun. An indifference to pleasure or pain.
Generic synonyms: Emotionlessness, Unemotionality
Derivative terms: Stoical, Stolid, Stolid
Definition of Stolidity
1. n. The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity.
Definition of Stolidity
1. Noun. The property of being stolid; unemotionality. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stolidity
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Stolidity
Literary usage of Stolidity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"What imbecile stolidity ! Will we thus blunder on to the end ? Congress has passed
an act organizing the artillery force of Lee's army—submitted by Gen. ..."
2. A Handbook of Greek Sculpture by Ernest Arthur Gardner (1896)
"We also see in all alike a stolidity of expression, produced mainly by the straight
line of the mouth, which is in Fio. 28. ..."
3. The Paraná: With Incidents of the Paraguayan War, and South American by Thomas Joseph Hutchinson (1868)
"... stolidity. FOLLOWING up the subject of the Triple Alliance Treaty, it seems
to me that the 16th article is one of its most important provisions, ..."
4. A Text-book of mental diseases by William Bevan Lewis (1890)
"... (JR)—Twitch- ings, Tremors, stolidity — Reaction-Time in Alcoholism — Muscular
Spasms and Cramps—Oculo-Motor Immunity—Nystagmus — Epileptiform Attacks— ..."
5. A Handbook to the Gallery of British Paintings in the Art Treasures Exhibition by Manchester art treasures exhib (1857)
"The stolidity of the central figure, deaf to reason as to sound, and the helpless
hopeless eagerness of the cold and fasting eleven to make him hear one and ..."
6. Evolution of the Japanese, Social and Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick (1903)
"XIV FICKLENESS—stolidity—STOICISM A FREQUENT criticism of the Japanese is that
they are fickle; that they run from one fad to another, from one idea to ..."
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