Imperturbability

Definition: Imperturbability

Imperturbability

Noun

1. Calm and unruffled self-assurance; "he performed with all the coolness of a veteran".

Date "imperturbability" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references)

Synonyms: Imperturbability

Synonyms: coolness (n), imperturbableness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Excitability	Noun: inexcitability, imperturbability, inirritability; even temper, tranquil mind, dispassion; tolerance, patience, coolth.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Imperturbability could be depended upon.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Imperturbability" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Imperturbability" is used about 5 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%	5	157,705

Language		Translations for "imperturbability"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		qetësi (calm, calmness, composure, coolness, countenance, dispassion, ease, equanimity, keep quiet, languor, mum, order, peace, placidity, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietness, quietude, serenity, shut up, silence, still, stillness, tranquility, tranquillity, unconcern), patrazueshmëri. (various references)

Arabic		‏رصانة (calmness, sobriety), ‏رباطة الجأش (possession). (various references)

Bulgarian		спокойствие (calm, calmness, composure, countenance, ease, easiness, immovability, impassivity, peace, placidity, poise, quiet, quietness, quietude, repose, rest, security, serenity, stillness, tranquility, tranquillity), невъзмутимост (immovability, sangfroid). (various references)

Czech		klid (calm, calmness, composure, coolness, countenance, ease, equanimity, peace, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietness, repose, rest, serenity, stand, standstill, still, stillness, tranquillity). (various references)

French		imperturbabilité. (various references)

German		Gelassenheit (aplomb, calm, calmness, composure, coolness, dispassionateness, equanimity, placidity, repose, sangfroid, sedateness, serenity, tranquility). (various references)

Greek		αταραξία (aplomb, calmness, composure, nonchalance, quietism, sedateness, self possession, stolidity, stolidness). (various references)

Hungarian		rendíthetetlenség (stability), nyugodtság (placidity, quietude, self possession, staidness, tranquillity, tranquilness), megzavarhatatlanság, hidegvér (aplomb, phlegm, sang froid, sang-froid, self control, self-command, self-control), egykedvűség (equanimity, stolidity). (various references)

Indonesian		keantengan. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		泰然自若 (be calm and self-possessed, presence of mind), 不動心 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たいぜ�"じじゃく (be calm and self-possessed, presence of mind), ふどうし�". (various references)

Manx		feayr-chooish (frigidity, impassiveness, indifference, languidness, phlegm, self-possession), feayr-aignys, do-chorreeaght. (various references)

Pig Latin		imperturbabilityay.(various references)

Portuguese		inoportuno (bad, embarrassing, goodygoody, gooey, ill treat, immaturity, importunate, inalienability, inapposite, inconvenient, inexpedient, inopportune, not fitting, timeless, uncalled for, unseasonable, unseemly, unsuitable, untimely), imperturbabilidade (stolidity), calma (aplomb, calm, calmness, composure, cool, coolness, countenance, détente, easygoing, halcyon, hush, indifference, lenience, leniency, lull, phlegm, placidity, quiet, quietness, self possession, serenity, silence, still, temper, tranquility, tranquillity). (various references)

Romanian		imperturbabilitate. (various references)

Russian		невозмутимость (equanimity, impassivity). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neuzbuđenost, nepotrešljivost, hladnokrvnost (sangfroid). (various references)

Spanish		imperturbabilidad, flema (mucus, phlegm, sluggishness). (various references)

Swedish		orubblighet (immovability, impregnability, tenacity). (various references)

Turkish		soğukkanlılık (calmness, cold blood, cool, coolness, equal mind, nerve, nonchalance, presence of mind, sang froid, sangfroid, self possession), sakinlik (calm, calmness, collectedness, collectivity, composedness, composure, equanimity, philosophy, quietness, tranquility, tranquillity), ağırbaşlılık (dignity, equanimity, gravity, knighthood, sedateness, seriousness, solemnity, staidness). (various references)

Ukranian		незворушність (calmness, unflappability). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính không hề nao núng (imperturbableness), tính không hề bối rối (imperturbableness), tính bình tĩnh (collectedness, composedness, imperturbableness, placidity), tính điềm tĩnh (composedness, equability, impassiveness, impassivity, imperturbableness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-b-e-i-i-i-l-m-p-r-r-t-t-u-y"
	-3 letters: imperturbably.
	-4 letters: imputability, reputability.
	-5 letters: bipartitely, partibility, prematurity.
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