alexithymic
adjEtymology From a- + Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “speech”) + θυμός (thumós, “soul”) + -ic.
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Human sciences, Medicine, Psychiatry, Psychology, Sciences Pertaining to or having alexithymia.
- ‘Horst is such a pushover. The big alexithymic lug.’2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 25:
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Anthropology, Human sciences, Sciences Lacking in emotion or emotional expression.
- Synonyms
- alexithymic, apathistical, clinical, dull, phlegmatic, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, dead inside, dispassionate, emotionless, immovable, impassible, impassive, insensible, nonemotional, nonfeeling, nonpassionate, nonsentimental, stolid, unemotional, unfeeling, unmovable, unpassionate, unsentimental
- Antonyms
- emotional
- Hypernyms
- lacking