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PRONUNCIATION OF AFFECTLESSNESS

affectlessness  [ˈæfɛktlɪsnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AFFECTLESSNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Affectlessness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AFFECTLESSNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of affectlessness in the English dictionary

The definition of affectlessness in the dictionary is the inability to have or show emotion or feeling.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AFFECTLESSNESS


agelessness
ˈeɪdʒlɪsnəs
bootlessness
ˈbuːtlɪsnəs
causelessness
ˈkɔːzlɪsnəs
changelessness
ˈtʃeɪndʒlɪsnəs
deathlessness
ˈdeθlɪsnəs
defenselessness
dɪˈfɛnslɪsnəs
formlessness
ˈfɔːmlɪsnəs
gutlessness
ˈɡʌtlɪsnəs
hairlessness
ˈheəlɪsnəs
hatelessness
ˈheɪtlɪsnəs
movelessness
ˈmuːvlɪsnəs
plotlessness
ˈplɒtlɪsnəs
resistlessness
rɪˈzɪstlɪsnəs
scentlessness
ˈsentlɪsnəs
sightlessness
ˈsaɪtlɪsnəs
sinlessness
ˈsɪnlɪsnəs
stresslessness
ˈstreslɪsnəs
sunlessness
ˈsʌnlɪsnəs
voicelessness
ˈvɔɪslɪsnəs
waterlessness
ˈwɔːtəlɪsnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AFFECTLESSNESS

affectedly
affectedness
affecter
affecting
affectingly
affection
affectional
affectionally
affectionate
affectionately
affectionless
affections
affective
affective disorder
affective psychosis
affectively
affectiveness
affectivity
affectless
affeer

WORDS THAT END LIKE AFFECTLESSNESS

biliousness
business
carelessness
consciousness
deliciousness
deviousness
flawlessness
helplessness
hilariousness
homelessness
hopelessness
lawlessness
nervousness
preciousness
restlessness
ridiculousness
righteousness
seriousness
statelessness
unconsciousness
viciousness

Synonyms and antonyms of affectlessness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «affectlessness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AFFECTLESSNESS

Find out the translation of affectlessness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of affectlessness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «affectlessness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

affectlessness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

affectlessness
570 millions of speakers

English

affectlessness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

affectlessness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

affectlessness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

affectlessness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

affectlessness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

affectlessness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

affectlessness
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketidakberesan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

affectlessness
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

affectlessness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

affectlessness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

LIYANE
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

affectlessness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

affectlessness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निरपेक्षता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

affectlessness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

affectlessness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

affectlessness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

affectlessness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

affectlessness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

affectlessness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

affectlessness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

affectlessness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

affectlessness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of affectlessness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AFFECTLESSNESS»

The term «affectlessness» is used very little and occupies the 160.420 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AFFECTLESSNESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about affectlessness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AFFECTLESSNESS»

Discover the use of affectlessness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to affectlessness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Psycopathy
... the oedipal type. Bowlby's "affectionless thief should not be considered identical with Bender's "affectless" child.3 Affectlessness in children is a psychopathic or psychopathoid condition resulting from insufficiency of personal relationships in ...
Carl Frankenstein
2
The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil
POLITICS: APATHY. AND. AFFECTLESSNESS. The acedia that overcame life in nineteenth-century Oceania may have overwhelmed significant portions of civilization in the twentieth-century Occident. However, acedia need not lead to ...
Stanford M. Lyman, 1989
3
Juvenile Delinquency
The picture of affectlessness in an adult has been drawn convincingly by A. Camus in his novel The Stranger (14). It is, of course, the author's existentialist philosophy rather than the hero's affectlessness which accounts for the tatter's ...
Carl Frankenstein
4
Violence Against Women in Medieval Texts
The affectlessness of rapists in talking about their crimes is a commonplace. Such affective indifference, noted by the press in the highly publicized Central Park jogger case (see Newsweek, 23 July 1990, esp. 48-49, for example), was linked ...
Anna Kłosowska, Anna Roberts, 1998
5
Affect Imagery Consciousness
In such cases avoidance scripts may concern the end state of exhausted affectlessness more than the sustained rage which produced it. In the extreme case a schizoid introversive avoidance script might be generated, not against rage, not ...
6
Reason and Passion: A Celebration of the Work of Hanna Segal
Her strategy in the analysis was this: to hold the analyst at bay by affectlessness. This affectlessness would also serve, she hoped, to protect the analyst from rude surprises, such as unsettling shows of feeling or independence; in part, that ...
David Bell, 1997
7
Automotive Prosthetic: Technological Mediation and the Car ...
We prize the unidirectional swiftness and seeming affectlessness of these experiences, and have come to expect them without question or doubt. We have naturalized our relationship to the switch, wheel, and keyboard, relying on them to work ...
Charissa N. Terranova, 2014
8
Self and Other: Object Relations in Psychoanalysis and ...
Third, Leites' elaboration of his analysis of Meursault's personality lays great emphasis on affectlessness as a defense. Specifically, according to Leites, " Affectlessness is here not only a defense against the various fantasied dangers of ...
Robert Rogers, 1993
9
The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism
Our reading of The Cenci indeed suggests that the closest cousin to this poetic anaesthesia is a machinal affectlessness that Shelley associates with the worst kinds of political violence. About a year before writing The Defence of Poetry, ...
Marc Redfield, 2003
10
Phenomenological Psychology: The Dutch School
emotions become weary so that one can speak of a certain affectlessness. It is as if nothing any longer interests the one who is falling asleep. All direction toward what is in the future and each glance toward the past loses interest. The ordering  ...
J.J. Kockelmans, 1987

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AFFECTLESSNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term affectlessness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Bleaker Than Bleak House
His affectlessness allows sentences like "I was told I couldn't stay but no one noticed I hadn't left" to land so hard on your heart that you have to ... «TheStranger.com, Jun 15»
2
How Do You Solve Problems like Annie and...
Her disorientation is meant to seem inevitable, but Pawlikowski rigs his thesis to propose her affectlessness as a universal condition. «National Review Online, Dec 14»
3
Book review: Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things …
But in The Book of Strange New Things it is woven into the fabric of the book, captured not just in the weird affectlessness of the prose but in its ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Dec 14»
4
Melbourne Festival review: Imaginative work unleashes wild energies
The affectlessness of their delivery grates, and if you compare these solo performances to, say, the liberation and sense of ownership of the ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Oct 14»
5
'LA Plays Itself,' but do films get it right?
I ask because the affectlessness of it, even the deadpan quality of it, suits the material. cComments. LA is an anomaly. It should not exist. «Los Angeles Times, Oct 14»
6
Manon; Strike! dance festival – review
... is a natural Manon, beguiling us with her dancing even as she spares us nothing of her character's affectlessness and mercenary calculation. «The Guardian, Oct 14»
7
The Equalizer, Jimi, and Denzel's Duality
... the race incident portrays plain injustice and Hendrix's political affectlessness — just like the victim protagonist in 12 Years. Is it possible the ... «National Review Online, Sep 14»
8
Wild, Foxcatcher, Rosewater and More: Hunting for Hits at Telluride …
Carell is masterfully sinister, quietly psycho, but his unexplained, detached affectlessness threatens to make the movie inert. His cold emptiness ... «LA Weekly, Sep 14»
9
Bartolo Colon is too fun to trade
Colon is weirdly, fantastically chilled out on the mound; his affectlessness seems to owe less to having achieved entry to some sort of ... «SB Nation, Aug 14»
10
'Medea,' Kathleen Turner and Noël Coward on London Stages
“Nothing — nothing can come between this woman and her misery,” notes the family nanny (played with stunned affectlessness by Michaela ... «New York Times, Jul 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Affectlessness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/affectlessness>. Apr 2024 ».
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