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Affectlessness

[af-ekt-lis]

af·fect·less

[af-ekt-lis]
adjective
lacking feeling or emotion; indifferent to the suffering of others: an affectless, futuristic drama in which the human characters are virtually robots.

Origin:
1965–70; affect1 + -less

af·fect·less·ly, adverb
af·fect·less·ness, noun
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Affectlessness is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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