Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Inexcitability (Absence of excitability, or of excitement)

Nouns
  • inexcitability, imperturbability, inirritability
  • even temper, tranquil mind, dispassion
  • tolerance, patience, coolth [Coll.]. passiveness etc. (physical inertness) Physical Inertness
  • hebetude, hebetation
  • impassibility etc. (insensibility) Insensibility
  • stupefaction. coolness, calmness etc. adj.
  • composure, placidity, indisturbance, imperturbation, tranquility, serenity
  • quiet, quietude
  • peace of mind, mental calmness. staidness etc. adj.
  • gravity, sobriety, Quakerism
  • philosophy, equanimity, stoicism, command of temper
  • self-possession, self-control, self-command, self-restraint, ice water in one's veins
  • presence of mind. submission etc. Submission
  • resignation
  • sufferance, supportance, endurance, longsufferance, forbearance
  • longanimity
  • fortitude
  • patience of Job, patience on a monument" [Twelfth Night], patience 'sovereign o'er transmuted ill'" [Johnson]
  • moderation
  • repression of feelings, subjugation of feeling
  • restraint etc. Restraint. tranquillization etc. (moderation) Moderation.
Verbs
  • take things easily, take things as they come
  • take it easy, rub on, live and let live
  • take easily, take cooly, take in good part
  • bear well
  • go through, support, endure, brave, disregard. tolerate, suffer, stand, bide
  • abide, aby
  • bear with, put up with, take up with, abide with
  • acquiesce
  • submit etc. (yield) Submission
  • submit with a good grace
  • resign oneself to, reconcile oneself to
  • brook, digest, eat, swallow, pocket, stomach. make light of, make the best of, make 'a virtue of necessity'" [Chaucer]
  • put a good face on, keep one's countenance
  • check etc. Restraint
  • check oneself. compose, appease etc. (moderate)
  • Moderation
  • propitiate
  • repress etc. (restrain) Restraint
  • render insensible etc. Insensibility
  • overcome one's excitability, allay one's excitability, repress one's excitability etc. [Excess of sensitiveness] Excitability
  • master one's feelings. make oneself easy
  • make one's mind easy
  • set one's mind at ease, set one's mind at rest. calm down, cool down
  • gentle
  • thaw, grow cool. be borne, be endured
  • go down.
Adjectives
  • inexcitable, unexcitable
  • imperturbable
  • unsusceptible etc. (insensible) Insensibility
  • unpassionate, dispassionate
  • cold-blooded, irritable
  • enduring etc. v.
  • stoical, Platonic, philosophic, staid, stayed
  • sober, sober minded
  • grave
  • sober as a judge, grave as a judge
  • sedate, demure, cool-headed. easy-going, peaceful, placid, calm
  • quiet as a mouse
  • tranquil, serene
  • cool as a cucumber, cool as a custard
  • undemonstrative. temperate etc. (moderate) Moderation
  • composed, collected
  • unexcited, unstirred, unruffled, undisturbed, unperturbed, unimpassioned
  • unoffended
  • unresisting. meek, tolerant
  • patient, patient as Job
  • submissive etc. Submission
  • tame
  • content, resigned, chastened, subdued, lamblike
  • gentle as a lamb
  • mild as mothers milk
  • soft as peppermint
  • armed with patience, bearing with, clement, long-suffering.
Adverbs
  • like patience on a monument smiling at grief" [Twelfth Night]
  • in cold blood etc. Insensibility
  • more in sorrow than in anger.
Int
  • patience!, and shuffle the cards.
Phrases
  • cool calm and collected, " keep calm in the midst of a storm
  • adversity's sweet milk, philosophy" [Romeo and Juliet]
  • they also serve who only stand and wait" [Milton].