different between impassive vs impassionate

English

Etymology

im- (“not”) +? passive (“to express the suffering or feeling”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?pæs?v/

Adjective

impassive (comparative more impassive, superlative most impassive)

1. Having, or revealing, no emotion.
2. Still or motionless.

Synonyms

• apathetic, phlegmatic

Related terms

• passive
• impassible
• impatient

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References

English

Alternative forms

• empassionate (obsolete)

Etymology

From im- +? passionate.

Pronunciation

• (adjective) IPA^(key): /?m?pæ??n?t/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /?m?pæ??ne?t/

Adjective

impassionate (comparative more impassionate, superlative most impassionate)

1. filled with passion; impassioned

   Synonyms: impassioned, passionate

   • 1900, George P. Hott, Christ, the Teacher, U. B. Publishing House, page 81:

     Young ministers, deeply impressed and longing to pour out the burning, impassionate zeal of their own souls, are apt to abuse the use of this figure.
2. Lacking passion; dispassionate

   Synonym: dispassionate

Translations

Verb

impassionate (third-person singular simple present impassionates, present participle impassionating, simple past and past participle impassionated)

1. (transitive) to affect powerfully; to arouse the passions of
   • 1662, Henry More, The Defence of the Moral Cabbala

     our Saviour Christ was one while deeply impassionated with Sorrow, another while very strongly carried away with Žeal and Anger