imperturbability

Examples

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• Only old Frike maintained his imperturbability, though this was not courage on his part: the sudden heavy noise had frightened him into immobility, as the rabbit is said to freeze when the falcon thunders down on him with angry wings and grasping talons.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Amelie's imperturbability amazed the officers, and now one of them was even asking if she'd stolen the attache case from the office.

  Fiction book (2000)

• He scowled at Mr. Smith, who sat back down with his usual imperturbability and began to eat his breakfast.

  Fiction book (1991)

• You are allowing your native imperturbability to be swept away by a spate of mounting hysteria.

  Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)

• " By you?" Jaxom asked, irritated by Aivas's imperturbability.

  Fiction book (1991)

• While ballet holds the spine straight, creating an effect of aristocratic imperturbability, Graham technique is based on the principle of contraction and release.

  Academic text (2005)

• People here, you see them standing in the winter cold and drizzle—smoking, talking, even sitting down and reading—with a positively bovine imperturbability.

  Academic text (2012)

• I have never believed that Osler, the icon of imperturbability (I still can't spell it without looking at it), could have had it in him to be a blogger.

  Blog text (25)

• The incongruity between the relatively trivial experiment and the imperturbability of the E on the one hand, and the awesome shock generator able to present shocks designated as "Danger -- Severe Shock" and the extremity of the victim's suffering on the other, should be sufficient to raise serious doubts in the minds of most Ss.

  Blog text (9)

• Amelie's imperturbability amazed the officers, who expected her to panic but remained calm throughout the questioning.

Synonyms

C

composure

vsimperturbability

38 5.1

Calm control of your feelings and actions in a difficult situation

emphasises inner unshaken steadiness rather than visible self control

E

equanimity

vsimperturbability

• Formal

8 8.6

A calm, steady mind when things are difficult

emphasizes unshaken steadiness rather than just mental evenness in stress

A

aplomb

vsimperturbability

8 8.2

Confidence and calm when you are under pressure

does not imply self confidence but stresses steady, unshaken calm

C

coolness

vsimperturbability

3 3.6

Calm and steady behaviour when you are under pressure

emphasizes being unshaken rather than emotionally distant or detached

A

assuredness

vsimperturbability

1 6.1

A feeling of confidence and calm in difficult situations

lacks the confident self belief and focuses on plain unshaken calm

U

unflappability

vsimperturbability

1 7.9

Staying calm and composed in difficult or stressful situations

is the same idea but differs only in word choice or tone

I

imperturbableness

vsimperturbability

9.9

A calm, steady state during difficult situations

is the same meaning but uses a different noun ending than this form

E

equability

vsimperturbability

6.7

Being calm and not easily upset

focuses more on staying unshaken under pressure than on general temperament

C

composedness

vsimperturbability

6.8

Calm control of your feelings when things are difficult

highlights unshakeable calm more than the deliberate control of feelings

C

collectedness

vsimperturbability

6.5

A calm and steady way of behaving in difficult situations

stresses being unshaken at core rather than only keeping outward control

U

unruffled demeanor

vsimperturbability

6.3

A calm, steady way to behave when things are difficult

refers to inner steadiness and unshakeable calm rather than outward manner

I

impassibility

vsimperturbability

9.5

Not showing feeling or reaction to events

focuses on steady calm without implying absence of feeling or response

Antonyms

A

agitation

12 5.1

A feeling of nervous worry and restlessness

How Calm

unflappability

1 7.9

imperturbability

1 9.0

composure

38 5.1

calmness

9 2.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology