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Unresponsiveness

noun
1.
The quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events.  Synonym: deadness.  "In an instant all the deadness and withdrawal were wiped away"





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"Unresponsiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... touch of hopefulness in his gloom this morning, like the first intimation of sunshine after a wet day. He had been thinking the thing over, and had come to the conclusion that Jill's unresponsiveness when confronted with the houses she had already seen was due to the fact that she had loftier ideas than he had supposed. Something a little more magnificent than the twelve thousand dollar places he had shown her was what she desired. This house ...
— The Little Warrior - (U.K. Title: Jill the Reckless) • P. G. Wodehouse


Words linked to "Unresponsiveness" :   frigidity, resistance, responsiveness, frigidness, quality, unresponsive


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