inexˈpressiveness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being inexpressive; want of expressiveness.
| 1816 Bentham Chrestom. Table i. Wks. 1843 VIII. 40 The fictitiousness, and hence the inexpressiveness, or rather the misexpressiveness, of the language. 1833 Hook Parson's Daughter (1847) 260 A countenance of immovable inexpressiveness. 1881 H. James Portr. Lady liv, Pity for the poor woman's inexpressiveness, her want of regret, of disappointment, came back to her. |