stolidity

English

Etymology

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

Noun

stolidity (usually uncountable, plural stolidities)

The property of being stolid; unemotionality.
- 1916, James Branch Cabell, The Certain Hour‎:
  " […] 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."

Translations

The property of being stolid; unemotionality

Bulgarian: безстрасност f (bezstrasnost)
Esperanto: flegmo
Russian: невозмути́мость (ru) f (nevozmutímostʹ), бесстра́стность (ru) f (besstrástnostʹ)

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