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affectlessness

[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

Related forms

af·fect·less·ly, adverb

af·fect·less·ness, noun

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