MEANING
Incapable of suffering or feeling pain.
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Words that belong together
- impassible deity
- impassible nature
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The account imagined an impassible deity watching the mortal struggle.
She contrasted the impassible figure with those who could be wounded.
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Word forms
- Base
- impassible
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: Capacity adjective; comparison normally not used. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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