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Disengaged vs Impassive - What's the difference?

disengaged | impassive | Related terms |

Disengaged is a related term of impassive.


As adjectives the difference between disengaged and impassive

is that disengaged is unconnected; detached while impassive is having, or revealing, no emotion.

As a verb disengaged

is (disengage).

disengaged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (disengage)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unconnected; detached.
  • (dated) Not (socially) engaged; available, free.
  • *1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , Vintage 2007, p. 40:
  • *:‘You must come and dine with us some night. Tuesday? Are you disengaged Tuesday?’

    • impassive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having, or revealing, no emotion.
  • Still or motionless.

    • Synonyms

    * apathetic, phlegmatic