inexpressivity

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Noun

inexpressivity (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being inexpressive.
    • 1943–5, Accent, page 182:
      The critics also would discover an individual structure in the score: a singular, artful alternation of the savage in mood and movement and the dreamy and exalted; a juxtaposition of heavy march-rhythms and dragging or ecstatic rhythms; and abrupt juxtapositions of inexpressivity and extreme expressivity.
    • 1951, J A Winter, A Doctor’s Report on Dianetics: Theory and Therapy, page 117:
      By demonstrating, even on this superficial level, that it is possible to cry without having pain the degree of emotional inexpressivity is lessened.
    • 1957, Abram Chasins, Speaking of Pianists…, page 52:
      Particularly ingenious, I think, is the bilingualism: the English “notes-art” implying the pianist’s inexpressivity, and the German “no-zart” (zart meaning tender or delicate).

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