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  • 61reticence — Synonyms and related words: aloofness, backwardness, bashfulness, blankness, chilliness, coldness, constraint, coolness, detachment, discreetness, discretion, distance, expressionlessness, frigidity, frostiness, guardedness, iciness,… …

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  • 62retirement — Synonyms and related words: Jim Crow, abandonment, abdication, abstention, abstinence, acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, aloofness, amortization, amortizement, anonymity, apartheid, apartness, backwardness, bashfulness, binder, blankness, cash …

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  • 63self-absorption — Synonyms and related words: acquisitiveness, anesthesia, autism, careerism, catatonia, chill, chilliness, cold blood, cold heart, coldheartedness, coldness, coolness, deadpan, dispassion, dispassionateness, dullness, ego trip, egotism, emotional… …

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  • 64stoicism — Synonyms and related words: acceptance, ataraxia, ataraxy, austerity, backbone, bovinity, calm, calmness, coolness, dispassion, dispassionateness, dullness, easy temper, endurance, even temper, fatalism, forbearance, forbearing, forbearingness,… …

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  • 65straight face — Synonyms and related words: anesthesia, autism, catatonia, chill, chilliness, cold blood, cold heart, coldheartedness, coldness, coolness, deadpan, decorousness, demureness, dispassion, dispassionateness, dullness, earnestness, emotional deadness …

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  • 66suppression — Synonyms and related words: Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, abolishment, abolition, aloofness, annihilation, annulment, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, backwardness, bamboo curtain, ban, barrier of secrecy, bashfulness,… …

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  • 67unconcern — Synonyms and related words: accidia, acedia, aloofness, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, benumbedness, blah, blahs, boredom, carelessness, casualness, comatoseness, detachment, disinterest, disinterestedness, dispassion, disregard, disregardfulness,… …

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  • 68withdrawal — Synonyms and related words: Jim Crow, abandonment, abdication, abjuration, abjurement, abolishment, abolition, abrogation, absentation, abstraction, abulia, agreement to disagree, alienation, aloneness, aloofness, anesthesia, annulment, anxiety,… …

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  • 69ataraxia — also Anglicized as ataraxy, calmness, impassivity, c.1600, from Modern Latin, from Gk. ataraxia impassiveness, from a , privative prefix, + tarassein (Attic tarattein) to disturb, confuse, from PIE root *dher to make muddy, darken …

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  • 70impassive — (adj.) 1660s, not feeling pain, from assimilated form of in not, opposite of (see IN (Cf. in ) (1)) + PASSIVE (Cf. passive). Meaning void of emotions is from 1690s. Related: Impassively; impassiveness (1640s) …

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