" affectlessness "

1: a lack of emotion or emotional expressiveness;

  * e.g., " ... though she always acts so blasé about everything, I think her air of affectlessness is largely put on "

•  Synonyms : 

•  apathy,

•  emotionlessness,

•  impassiveness,

•  impassivity,

•  insensibility,

•  numbness,

•  phlegm

•  Antonyms : 

•  emotion,

•  feeling,

•  sensibility

1: having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings;

  * e.g., " ... an affectless analysis of the cost of the war purely in pecuniary terms "

•  Synonyms : 

•  callous,

•  case-hardened,

•  cold-blooded,

•  compassionless,

•  desensitized,

•  hard,

•  hard-boiled,

•  hard-hearted,

•  heartless,

•  indurate,

•  inhuman,

•  inhumane,

•  insensate,

•  insensitive,

•  ironhearted,

•  merciless,

•  obdurate,

•  pachydermatous,

•  pitiless,

•  remorseless,

•  ruthless,

•  slash-and-burn,

•  soulless,

•  stony,

•  stonyhearted,

•  take-no-prisoners,

•  thick-skinned,

•  uncharitable,

•  unfeeling,

•  unmerciful,

•  unsparing,

•  unsympathetic

•  Antonyms : 

•  charitable,

•  compassionate,

•  humane,

•  kindhearted,

•  kindly,

•  merciful,

•  sensitive,

•  softhearted,

•  sympathetic,

•  tender,

•  tenderhearted,

•  warm,

•  warmhearted

2: not feeling or showing emotion;

  * e.g., " ... the accused remained affectless throughout the long trial "

•  Synonyms : 

•  apathetic,

•  cold-blooded,

•  emotionless,

•  impassible,

•  impassive,

•  numb,

•  passionless,

•  phlegmatic,

•  stoic,

•  stolid,

•  undemonstrative,

•  unemotional

•  Antonyms : 

•  demonstrative,

•  emotional,

•  fervent,

•  fervid,

•  hot-blooded,

•  impassioned,

•  passional,

•  passionate,

•  vehement