"emotionless" meaning in English

See emotionless in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-emotionless.wav [US] Forms: more emotionless [comparative], most emotionless [superlative]
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin ēmoveō Vulgar Latin *exmovēre Old French esmovoir Middle French esmouvoir Middle French emotionbor. English emotion Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English emotionless From emotion + -less. Etymology templates: {{etymon|en|:af|emotion|-less|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin ēmoveō Vulgar Latin *exmovēre Old French esmovoir Middle French esmouvoir Middle French emotionbor. English emotion Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. 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Head templates: {{en-adj}} emotionless (comparative more emotionless, superlative most emotionless)
  1. Lacking emotion. Synonyms: alexithymic Derived forms: emotionlessly, emotionlessness Translations (lacking emotion): ἀπαθής (apathḗs) (Ancient Greek), студе́н (studén) (Bulgarian), emotieloos [neuter] (Dutch), tunteeton (Finnish), desapaixonado (Galician), impasíbel (Galician), impertérrito (Galician), unbewegt (German), gefühllos (German), emotionslos (German), भावहीन (bhāvhīn) (Hindi), 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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      "sense": "lacking emotion",
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      "sense": "lacking emotion",
      "word": "impertérrito"
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      "sense": "lacking emotion",
      "word": "unbewegt"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "lacking emotion",
      "word": "gefühllos"
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      "sense": "lacking emotion",
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      "sense": "lacking emotion",
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      "word": "duygusuz"
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      "sense": "lacking emotion",
      "word": "hissiz"
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      "code": "uk",
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      "lang_code": "uk",
      "roman": "bezemocíjnyj",
      "sense": "lacking emotion",
      "word": "беземоці́йний"
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}

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