"emotionless" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-emotionless.wav Forms: more emotionless [comparative], most emotionless [superlative]
Etymology: From emotion + -less. Etymology templates: {{af|en|emotion|-less}} emotion + -less Head templates: {{en-adj}} emotionless (comparative more emotionless, superlative most emotionless)
  1. Lacking emotion. Categories (topical): Emotions Synonyms: alexithymic Derived forms: emotionlessly, emotionlessness Translations (lacking emotion): ἀπαθής (apathḗs) (Ancient Greek), студе́н (studén) (Bulgarian), emotieloos [neuter] (Dutch), tunteeton (Finnish), unbewegt (German), gefühllos (German), emotionslos (German), beznamiętny (Polish), bezuczuciowy (Polish), fără emoții [feminine, masculine, neuter, plural] (Romanian), brezčustven (Slovene), känslolös (Swedish), duygusuz (Turkish), hissiz (Turkish), беземоці́йний (bezemocíjnyj) (Ukrainian)
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