stolidity Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions
    impassiveness; unemotionality; impassivity; indifference; emotionlessness; phlegm.
  2. noun an indifference to pleasure or pain
    stolidness; stoicism.

WordNet


Sto*lid"i*ty noun
Etymology
L. stoliditas.
Definitions
  1. The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity.
    Indocile, intractable fools, whose stolidity can baffle all arguments, and be proof against demonstration itself. Bentley.

Webster 1913