Today's Word "impassible"
Unfeeling or not showing feeling
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impassible \im-PASS-uh-buhl\ (adjective) - 1 : Incapable of suffering; not subject to harm or pain. 2 : Unfeeling or not showing feeling.
"After we discovered this, we never went into ecstacies any more -- we never admired any thing -- we never showed any but impassible faces and stupid indifference in the presence of the sublimest wonders a guide had to display." -- Mark Twain, 'The Innocents Abroad'
Impassible is from Late Latin impassibilis, from Latin in-, "not" + Late Latin passibilis, "passible; capable of feeling or suffering" from Latin passus, past participle of pati, "to suffer." It is related to passion, which originally meant "suffering" but came to apply to any strong feeling or emotion.
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