impassibility

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It’s no longer in use; grass and dirt cover much of its surface, and the road at its far end is overgrown to the point of impassibility.

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2018

As a result monophysite theology oscillated between denial of the impassibility of God and denial of his three-fold personality.

From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)

But she immediately recovered her impassibility of features—that wonderful calmness and innocent expression which afterwards was so severely put to the proof without 155 being shaken—and she asked, with apparent unconcern:

From John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 by Frith, William Powell

So without in his heart prejudging the woman, he drew his conclusions, true or false, from the impassibility of her demeanour.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Leighton, Alexander

At one point in her narrative the listener’s pale face flushed, and her eyes burned, but mastering herself, she preserved her impassibility to the end.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram