stolidity

noun

stolidity

noun

Etymology From stolid + -ity, from Middle French stolidité, from Late Latin stoliditas.

1

Usually The property of being stolid; unemotionality.

  • "[…] So many people find the world a dreary residence," Mr. Calverley sighed, "that it is really a pity some one of these long-faced stolidities cannot die now instead of me. For I have found life wonderful throughout."1916, James Branch Cabell, The Certain Hour:

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