| 单词 |
impassibility |
| 释义 |
impassibility|ɪmpæsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ|
Also 4–5 inp-.
[a. F. impassibilité (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. impassibilitās (tr. Gr. ἀπάθεια, Jerome), f. impassibilis (see next).]
The quality of being impassible.
1. Incapability of, or exemption from, suffering; insusceptibility to injury.
a1340Hampole Psalter lxvii. 38 He sall gif vertu of inpassibilite. 1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) iii. xiii. 148/2 Men shall haue there inpassybylyte & helth of bodye without all maner sekenesse. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 510 Christe is..God because of his impassibilitie, man for his passion. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §15. 280 Incorruptibility, Perfection, Impassibility. a1792Horne Wks. IV. xvii. (R.), The perfect impassibility of heaven. 1893Fairbairn Christ in Mod. Theol. 483 Theology has no falser idea than that of the impassibility of God.
2. Incapability of feeling or emotion, insensibility.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 74 They..do terme those joyes, those promptitudes of the will..by the name of Eupathies, i.e. good affections, and not of Apathies, that is to say, Impassibilities. 1815Southey in Q. Rev. XIII. 451 This impassibility..this Satanic indifference to the means which he used..and the misery which he occasioned, Marshal Soult possessed. 1840Mill Diss. & Disc., A. de Vigny (1859) I. 309–10 Spartan and Stoical impassibility. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. v. xxxv, Well-cut impassibility of face. |
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