impassibility

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the condition of being incapable of suffering, feeling, or being emotionally affected

   The philosopher rejects impassibility when it means the complete absence of appropriate feeling.

2. 2
   noun

   theology: the doctrine that God cannot suffer or be changed by external forces

   The debate over divine impassibility asks whether God can suffer.

From impassible + -ity, ultimately from Late Latin impassibilitas, "incapacity for suffering," built on in- ("not") + passibilis ("able to suffer").

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