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affectless

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af⋅fect⋅less

  [af-ekt-lis]
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–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; affect 1 + -less

Related forms:
af⋅fect⋅less⋅ly, adverb
af⋅fect⋅less⋅ness, noun
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af·fect·less   (āf'fěkt'lĭs)   
adj.  Having or showing no emotion; unfeeling: "Mass-culture banality is killing our souls and making everybody affectless" (New Yorker).
af'fect'less·ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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