stolidity

Examples

• All

• But once they are out there, they have a kind of bluff stolidity that innately resists assault.

  Academic text (2005)

• He knew their suffering; he praised their dazed stolidity as a virtue; he restored their threadbare souls.

  Fiction book (2001)

• He likewise does not demur at Weizmann's affirmation of the stolidity and self-satisfaction of a majority of people with its own ethnonational state.

  Academic text (1999)

• On the Lower East Side, as in Picasso's picture, however, the woodenness of the women's stances and their faces' masklike stolidity suggest that they know they are party to a tiresome artifice.

  Academic text (1994)

• Despite the chaos around her, she maintained a remarkable stolidity and did not show any signs of panic.

• His stolidity during the intense discussion impressed everyone, as he remained calm and collected.

• The worker's stolidity in the face of criticism demonstrated his unwavering commitment to the project.

Synonyms

S

stoicism

vsstolidity

5 7.8

A calm way of accepting pain or hardship without complaint

focuses on emotion absence generally rather than endurance under hardship

I

impassivity

vsstolidity

1 8.8

A lack of emotion or visible reaction

expresses the same lack but is the preferred general label

E

emotionlessness

vsstolidity

1 8.5

A lack of visible feeling or reaction

covers the same emotionless state using a different expression

B

blandness

vsstolidity

1 4.4

A calm lack of emotion when people expect a strong reaction

is the neutral quality of low emotion without the situational focus

S

stolidness

vsstolidity

9.1

A state of not showing strong feelings when good or bad things happen

has identical meaning but is a different form of the term

I

impassiveness

vsstolidity

7.9

A lack of visible emotion

means the same state but is an alternate form of the word

U

unemotionality

vsstolidity

8.3

A state of showing little or no feeling

is the same general quality but named with another term

E

expressionlessness

vsstolidity

7.4

No feeling shown on a person's face, voice, or actions

is broader, applying to overall lack of feeling not just appearance

I

inexpressiveness

vsstolidity

7.8

Not showing feelings or emotion

is more general, applying to feeling absence beyond expression alone

S

stoniness

vsstolidity

7.1

A hard, cold way of acting that shows no emotion

describes mere lack of feeling without the physical hardness metaphor

Antonyms

E

emotionality

2 6.7

The state of having or showing strong feelings

How Emotional

sensitivity

100 3.9

reserve

9 5.2

stolidity

9.9

apathy

43 6.2

impassivity

1 8.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology