IMPASSIBILITY

Definition: IMPASSIBILITY

IMPASSIBILITY

Adjective

1. The quality or condition of being impassible; insusceptibility of injury from external things.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "IMPASSIBILITY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Excitability	Passiveness; (physical inertness); hebetude, hebetation; impassibility; (insensibility); stupefaction.
Insensibility	Noun: insensibility, insensibleness; moral insensibility; inertness, inertia; vis inertiae; impassibility, impassibleness; inappetency, apathy, phlegm, dullness, hebetude, supineness, lukewarmness.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Impassibility (from Latin in-, "not", passibilis, "able to suffer, experience emotion") describes the theological doctrine that God does not experience pain or pleasure from the actions of another being. Some theologies often portray God as a magnified human being subject to many (or all) human emotions and imperfections: for example, in the Hebrew Bible Yahweh is portrayed as experiencing anger, jealousy, and disappointment, and in Greek mythss Zeus is portrayed as experiencing lust. Ancient Greek philosophers like Aristotle and Plato challenged these ideas and introduced the concept of God as a perfect, omniscient, timeless, and unchanging being not subject to human emotion (which represents change and imperfection). The concept of impassibility was developed by medieval theologians like Anselm and continues to be in tension with more emotionally satisfying concepts of God.

Crosswords: IMPASSIBILITY

English words defined with "IMPASSIBILITY": Impassibleness. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Divine Impassibility : An Essay in Philosophical Theology (reference) The power and weakness of God : impassibility and orthodoxy (reference) (more book examples)
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"IMPASSIBILITY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "IMPASSIBILITY" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

Language		Translations for "IMPASSIBILITY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pandjeshmëri (callosity, insensibility, insensitivity), gjakftohtësi (aplomb, calmness, coolness, equanimity, impassivity, moderation, nerve, order, phlegm, placidity, presence of mind, recollection, sangfroid, self control, self possession, serenity, unconcern). (various references)

Bulgarian		нечувствителност (apathy, impassivity, insensibility, insensible, insensitivity, insusceptibility), безстрастие (immovability, impassivity), безчувственост (analgesia, insensibility, insensitivity, insusceptibility, stolidity, torpidity). (various references)

German		Unwegsamkeit. (various references)

Greek		απάθεια (apathy, apathy towards, aplomb, coolness, impassiveness, impassivity, insensitivity, nonchalance, stolidity, stolidness). (various references)

Hungarian		érzéketlenség (anaesthesia, analgesia, apathy, blind spot, bluntness, brutality, callousness, dispassion, impassivity, insensibility, insensitivity, insusceptibility, stoniness, stupor). (various references)

Italian		impassibilit� . (various references)

Pig Latin		impassibilityay.(various references)

Portuguese		beco sem saída (blind alley, corner, cul de sac, cul-de-sac, dead center, dead centre, dead end, dead lock, point of no return, stalemate). (various references)

Romanian		impasibilitate, caracter impasibil. (various references)

Russian		нечувствительность (insensitivity, insusceptibility), бесстрастность (impassivity). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neosetljivost (callosity, impassivity, insensibility, insensitivity, insusceptibility). (various references)

Swedish		okänslighet (callousness, immunity, impassivity, insusceptibility, numbness), känslolöshet (impassivity, insensibility). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính vô tình tính không biết đau đớn tính không thể l� m tổn thương được (impassibleness), tính trơ trơ (impassibleness), tính không xúc động (immovability, immovableness, impassibleness), tính không mủi lòng (impassibleness, inexorability, inexorableness), tính không động lòng (impassibleness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "IMPASSIBILITY" (pronounced 'Im*pas`si*bil"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability, Alterity, Alternity, Amability, Ambidexterity, Ambiguity, Amenability, Amenity, Amiability, Amicability, Amissibility, Amity, Amorosity, Amovability, Anaplasty, Anfractuosity, Anglicity, Angularity, Angulosity, Anility, Animality, Animosity, Annuity, Annularity, Anonymity, Anteriority, Antiquity, Anxiety, Appetibility, Applicability, Apprehensibiity, Approachability, Appropinquity, Apriority, Aqueity, Aquosity, Aridity, Artificiality, Asininity, Asperity, Assiduity, Assignability, Assimilability, Associability, Astucity, Atomicity, Atrocity, Attainability, Attractability, Attractivity, Audacity, Audibility, Austerity, Authenticity, Authority, Autoplasty, Autostability, availability, Avidity, Banality, Barbarity, Basicity, Batty, BEAUTY, Benignity, Bestiality, Betty, Bibacity, Biblicality, Biformity, Bilaterality, Biplicity, Bipolarity, Bolty, Booty, BOUNTY, Brevity, Bridalty, Brutality, Butty, Caducity, Calamity, Calidity, Caliginosity, Callidity, Callosity, Caloricity, Canonicity, Canthoplasty, Canty, Capability, Capacity, Capillarity, Captivity, Cariosity, Carnality, Carnivoracity, Carnosity, Casualty, Catholicity, Catty, Causality, Cavity, Cecity, Celebrity, Celerity, Centrality, Centricity, Cerebricity, Certainty, Champerty, Changeability, Charity, Chastity, Cheiloplasty, Christianity, Circuity, Circularity, Circumstantiality, Civillty, Clandestinity, Clarity, Clericity, Clivity, Clotty, Coactivity, Coagulability, Coequality, Coessentiality, Coeternity, Cogitability, Cognoscibility, Cohesibility, Collectivity, Colloidality, Columnarity, Combustibility, Comicality, Comity, Commensality, Commensurability, Commodity, Commonalty, Commonty, Communicability, Community, Commutability, Compaternity, Compatibility, Complexity, Complicity, Comprehensibility, Compressibility, Concavity, Concentricity, Conceptibility, Concinnity, Condensability, Condignity, Conditionality, Conducibility, Conductibility, Conductivity, Confinity, Confluxibility, Conformability, Conformity, Confraternity, Confusability, Congeniality, Congruity, Conicality, Conjugality, Connaturality, Connubiality, Consanguinity, Consentaneity, Conspectuity, Conspicuity, Constitutionality, Consubstantiality, Contemporaneity, Contemptibility, Contiguity, Continuity, Contractibility, Contractility, Contrariety, Controllability, Conventionality, Convertibility, Convexity, Convicinity, Conviviality, Cordiality, Coreplasty, Corporality, Corporeality, Corporeity, Corrigibility, Corrodibility, Corrosibility, Corruptibility, Cosurety, Cotqueanity, County, Credibility, Credulity, Criminality, Crinosity, Crocodility, Crudity, Cruelty, Cullibility, Culpability, Cupidity, Curability, Curiality, Curiosity, Curvilinearity, Curvity, Cutty, Cylindricity, Cytty, Damnability, Debility, Debonairity, Deceptivity, Deciduity, Declivity, Deducibility, Defectibility, Defectuosity, Defensibility, Deflagrability, Deformity, Deiformity, Deity, Demisability, Democraty, Demonstrability, Demurity, Density, Deplorability, Depravity, Deputy, Descendibility, Desirability, Despicability, Destructibility, Deteriority, Determinability, Detestability, Devexity, Devotionality, Dexterity, Dextrality, Diaphaneity, Dibasicity, Dicacity, Didacticity, Difficulty, Difformity, Diffusibility, Diffusivity, Digestibility, Dignity, Dilatability, Dimensity, Dimity, Disability, Disassiduity, Discommodity, Discommunity, Disconformity, Discongruity, Discontinuity, Discoverability, Disensanity, Disformity, Dishonesty, Disingenuity, Disloyalty, Disparity, Disproperty, Disputacity, Disquantity, Disreputability, Disrespectability, Dissimilarity, Dissipativity, Dissociability, Dissolubility, Dissolvability, Distensibility, Disunity, Diuturnity, Diversifiability, Diversity, Divinity, Divisibility, Docility, Docity, Domesticity, Dotty, Doty, Doughty, Drasty, Duality, Dubiety, Dubiosity, Ductility, Duplicity, Durability, Durity, Duty, Dynasty, Ebriety, Ebriosity, Eccentricity, Edacity, Edibility, Educability, Efficacity, Effumability, Egality, Egoity, Elasticity, Electorality, Elementality, Elementarity, Eligibility, Ellipticity, Emotivity, Empty, Enmity, Enomoty, Enormity, Entierty, Entirety, Entity, Ephoralty, Epulosity, Equability, Equality, Equanimity, Equilibrity, Equity, Erectility, Essentiality, Eternity. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-i-i-i-i-l-m-p-s-s-t-y"
	-3 letters: impassibly.
	-4 letters: ptyalisms.
	-5 letters: baptisms, militias, misplays, palmists, pitiably, psalmist, ptyalism, simplist.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-i-i-i-i-l-m-p-s-s-t-y"
	+4 letters: impressionability.
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