Meaning of inexpressivity | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being inexpressive.

uncountable

Examples

“The critics also would discover⟳ an individual structure⟳ in the score⟳: a singular, artful alternation of the savage in mood and movement and the dreamy and exalted; a juxtaposition of heavy march-rhythms and dragging or ecstatic rhythms; and abrupt juxtapositions of inexpressivity and extreme expressivity.”

“By demonstrating, even on this superficial level, that it is possible to cry⟳ without having pain the degree of emotional inexpressivity is lessened.”

“Particularly ingenious, I think⟳, is the bilingualism: the English “notes-art” implying the pianist’s inexpressivity, and the German “no-zart” (zart meaning tender or delicate).”

CEFR level