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Definition of Stolidness
1. Noun. An indifference to pleasure or pain.
Generic synonyms: Emotionlessness, Unemotionality
Derivative terms: Stoical, Stolid, Stolid
Definition of Stolidness
1. n. Same as Stolidity.
Definition of Stolidness
1. Noun. The quality of being stolid. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stolidness
Literary usage of Stolidness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1905)
"The first point which the designer of the Regency aimed at was to break up the
lines of the meuble, to alleviate its stolidness. ..."
2. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1874)
"It was hard not to agree with what everybody said, not to be sensible that one
was in the enviable position which the world made out ; but the stolidness ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1893)
"5 : 509. Specimen of African civilization (Misc.), 15 : 863. stolidness of
Eskimos (Misc.), :141. Stone-age civilization in New Guinea (Misc.), 19 :. ..."
4. Representative Plays by American Dramatists by Montrose Jonas Moses (1921)
"[With characteristic stolidness.] Your ladyship's dressmaker! M'lady! [Enter SIR
WILFRID in morning suit, boutonniere,&c. VIDA. [With tender surprise and ..."
5. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1903)
"But notwithstanding the irony that underlies the Scot's nature, and his apparent
stolidness, there does lie within his bosom, unseen, a store of sentiment; ..."
6. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"But notwithstanding the irony that underlies the Scot's nature, and his apparent
stolidness, there does lie within his bosom, unseen, a store of sentiment; ..."
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