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Impassive vs Taciturn - What's the difference?

impassive | taciturn |

As adjectives the difference between impassive and taciturn

is that impassive is having, or revealing, no emotion while taciturn is silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak.

impassive

English

Adjective

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

    • Synonyms

    * apathetic, phlegmatic

    taciturn

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak.
    • The two sisters could hardly have been more different, one so boisterous and expressive, the other so taciturn and calm.
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    • Synonyms

    * (silent) reticent, untalkative * See also

    Antonyms

    * (silent) garrulous, loquacious

    Derived terms

    * taciturnity * taciturnly

    Related terms

    * tacit * tacitly * tacitness

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